Typical use of Managerial accounting, Business & Finance Homework Help

1. A Typical use of Managerial accounting is to

A.Help investors and creditor assess the financial position of the company

B. Help management get a clean audit report

C. help the marketing manager decide which product promotion tio implement

D. help the SEC decide whether management is in compliance of its policies

2. Three cost incurred by Las company are summarized below

                                                         1,000 units                     2,000 units

Cost A                                                $10.000                         $15,000

Cost B                                                  $21,000                       $21,000

Cost C                                                  $16,000                        $32,000

Which of these costs are variables

A. a,b, and c

B. A and B

C. A only

D. C only

3.Johns’s warehouse has budget the following cost for the month in which 1,600 steak dinners will be produced and sold: materials, $4,080; hourly labor (variable), $5,200; rent (fixed), $1,720; depreciation, $740; and other fixed cost, $520. Each steak dinner sells for $14.00 each. How much would Todd’s profit increase if 10 more dinners were sold?

4. Tim company produces door stoppers. July production costs are below

Door stoppers produces        71,000

Direct Material (variable)                               $20,000

Direct Labor (variable)                                   $40,000

Supplies (variable)                                          $20,000

Supervision (fixed)                                         $27,600

Depreciation (fixed)                                         $20,100

Others ( fixed)                                                 $5,300

In August, Tim expects to produce 100,000 door stoppers. Assuming no structural changes, what is Tim’s production cost per door stoppers for August?

5.  John’s chairs in the process of preparing a production cost budget for august. Actual cost in July for 120 chairs were:

Material cost            $4,870

Labor cost               $2,870

Rent                          $1,500

Depreciation             $2,500

Other fixed Cost       $3,200

Material and labor are the only variable costs. If productions and sales is budgeted to change to 130 chairs in August, how much is the expected total variable cost on the August budget?

6. Beet plans to sell 1,300 carriers next year and has budgeted sales for $46,000 and profit of $22,000. Variable cost are projected to be $20 per Unit. Leet offers to pay $24,400 to buy 540 units from Beet. Total fixed costs are $7,000 per year. This offer does not affect Beet other planned operations. the incremental revenue for this situation are?

7. Stellars co has the following sales, variable cost and fixed cost. If sales increase by $10,000 then their profit increase/decrease by how much?

Sales                      $50,000

Variable cost           $8,800

Fixed costs             $28,000

8. Tim is trying to decide whether or not to attend college during the next 12 week session. He has the following options

1. attend college full time at a cost of $1,200

2. Attend college part-time at a cost of $500 and work part-time earning $2,000

3. Work full-time earning $4,900

What is Tim’s incremental profit if he chooses option 3 over option 2?

9. Total cost were $75,600 when 25,000 units were produced and $94,000 when 39,000 units were produced. Use the high-low method to find the estimate total cost for the production leve of 32,000 units

10, Professional university teaches a large range of undergraduate courses. it is interested in determining the cost equation for the facilities cost as a function of student credit hours so that it can more accurately budget its facilities cost as enrollment grows. Information for the high and low cost semesters and volumes for the last 5 years appears  below

Semester            Semester Credit hours            Facilities Cost

Spring 2007                 250,000                               $500,000

 Fall 2004                      300,000                              $530,000

Using the high low method, with student credit hours as the activity driver, what is the equation for facilities cost (FC) as a function of student credit hours?

A. FC = $350,000 + $0.60/ student credit hours

B. FC = $585,100+ $1.67/ student credit hours

C. FC = $1.77 / Student credit hours

D. FC = $2 / Student credit hour

11. Randy’s tirland makes a product that sells for $61 per unit and has $40 per unit variable costs. Annually fixed cost are $24,000. If Rambles sells 10 units less than breakeven, how much loss would the comp[any recognize on its income statement? (as the question asks “how much loss” you don’t have to put the negative sign. For example, suppose the loss is 100, then write the answer as 100 rather than -100)

12. Ritz furniture has a contribution margin ratio of 0.15. If fixed costs are $161,800. how many dollars of the revenue must the company generate in order to reach the break- even point?

13. U.S telephone cellular sells phones for $100. The unit variable cost per phone is $50 plus a selling commission of 10% (based on the unit sales price per phone). Fixed manufacturing cost total $1,250 per month, while fixed selling and administrative costs total $2,470. How many phones must be sold to achieve the breakeven point?

14. Slim is a swimsuit manufacturer. They sell swim suit at a selling price is $30 per unit. Slim variable costs are $18 per unit. Fixed cost are $75,200. Slim expects sales of $280,300 next year. What is slim margin of saftey (in Dollars)?

15. Lambardi co sells 3 types of bags. Bag A sells for $20 and has variable cost of $9.00 per unit. Bag B sells for $14 and has variable cost of $12 per unit. Bag C sells for $9 and has variable costs of $6 perunit. Lambardi sells in a mix of 2 units for A, 3 units of B and 5 units for C. What is the weighted average contribution margin per unit for Lambardi?

16. Product A has a contribution margin per unit of $500 and required 2 hours of machine time. Product B has a contribution margin per unit of $1,000 and requires 5 hours of machine time. How much of each products should be produced given there are 100 hours of available machine time?

A.  50 units of A and 25 units of B

B. 25 units of B

C. 50 units of A

D. None of the above

17. Delfi Company produces two models of seats, Toro and prep. Information regarding these products for May follows

                                                                            TORO                        PREP

Number of units                                            3,000                               7,000

Sales Revenue                                              $120,000                          $140,000

Varable Costs                                                  60,000                            42,000

Fixed Costs                                                       24,000                           50,000

Net income                                                          36,000                           48,000

Poundsof plastic to produce 1 bucket                    4.0                               1.6

Contribution margin per unit                                     $20                                  $14

Due to the increase demand of plastic in the market, Delfi company can obtain only 9,000 pounds of plastic per month. Delfi can sell as many seats as it can produce of either model. How many of each model should Delfi produce to maximize profits in May considering the Constraint.

A, Toro: 0; prop: 4,375

B. Toro: 2,250: Prep: 0

C. Toro: 1,125; Prep: 2,812

D. Toro: 0: Prep: 5,625

18. John Corp uses activity based costing system with three activities cost pools. The following information is provided

Costs: Wages and Salaries $    208,000

Depreciation                                119,000

Utilities                                         115,000

Total                                            $440,000

Activity Cost Pools

                                                      Assembly              Setting Up             Other

Wages and Salaries                         0.053                       30%                     10%

Depreciation                                      0.34                          45%                     20%

Utilities                                               0.24                          40%                      30%

How much total cost would bve allocated to the assembly activity cost pool?