King City Specialty Bikes (KCSB) produces high-end bicycles. Costs to manufactur
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King City Specialty Bikes (KCSB) produces high-end bicycles. Costs to manufacture and market the ...
King City Specialty Bikes (KCSB) produces high-end bicycles. Costs to manufacture and market the bicycles at last year's volume level of 1,800 bicycles per month are shown in the following table:
KCSB expects to produce and sell 2,100 bicycles per month in the coming year. The bicycles sell for $600 each.
KCSB receives a proposal from an outside contractor who, for $150 per bicycle, will assemble 700 bicycles per month and ship them directly to KCSB's customers as orders are received from KCSB's sales force. KCSB would provide the materials for each bicycle, but the outside contractor would assemble, box, and ship the bicycles. The variable manufacturing costs would be reduced by 45% for the 700 bicycles assembled by the outside contractor, and variable nonmanufacturing costs for the 700 bicycles would be cut by 60%.
KCSB's marketing manager thinks that it could sell 85 specialty racing bicycles per month for $6,000 each, and its production manager thinks that it could use the idle resources to produce each of these bicycles for variable manufacturing costs of $4,800 per bicycle and variable nonmanufacturing costs of $350 per bicycle.
If KCSB accepts the proposal, it would be able to save 5% of fixed manufacturing costs; fixed nonmanufacturing costs would be unchanged.
REQUIRED [Note: Round unit cost computations to the nearest cent]
What is the difference in KCSB's monthly costs between accepting the proposal and rejecting the proposal? (Note: If the costs of accepting the proposal are less than the costs of rejecting it, enter the difference as a positive number; if the accept costs are more than the reject costs, enter the difference as a negative number.)
Variable manufacturing per unit $227.00 Total fixed manufacturing $244,800 Variable nonmanufacturing per unit $57.00 Total fixed nonmanufacturing $250,200Explanation / Answer
If proposal accepted If proposal rejected Working 700 from contractor 1400 in house Racing cycle 85 Total No of Units 2100 700 1400 85 2185 Selling Price 600 600 600 6000 Outside Vendor Cost 150 150 Variable Cost -Manufacturing 227 Reduce by 45% for 700 units 124.85 227 4800 5151.85 -NonManufacturing 57 Reduce by 60% for 700 units 22.8 57 350 429.8 Total Variable Cost per unit 284 297.65 284 5150 5731.65 Fixed Cost -Manufacturing 244800 Reduce by 5% 232560 -NonManufacturing 250200 Same 250200 Total Fixed Cost 495000 482760 Total Variable Cost (Per unit*Units) 596400 208355 397600 605955 Total Cost 1091400 1088715 Cost if proposal rejected 1091400 Cost if proposal accepted 1088715 Benefit in cost if accepted 2685 Incremental GM from racing bicycle 72250 (6000-5150)*85 Total Benefit 74935
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