Question

Target Costing Laser Impressions, Inc., manufactures color laser printers. Model 20 presently sells for $325 and has a total product cost of $260, as follows: Direct materials $190 Direct labor Factory Overhead 20 $260 It is estimated that the competitive selling price for color laser printers of this type will drop to $310 next year. Laser Impressions has established a target cost to maintain its historical markup percentage on product cost. Engineers have provided the following cost reduction Ideas: 1. Purchase a plastic printer cover with snap-on assembly, rather than with screws. This will reduce the amount of direct labor by 9 minutes per unit 2. Add an inspection step that will add six minutes per unit of direct inbor but reduce the materials cost by $7 per unit. 3. Decrease the cycle time of the injection molding machine from four minutes to three minutes per part. Thirty percent of the direct labor and 45% of the factory overhead are related to running injection molding machines The direct labor rate is $21 per hour a. Determine the target cost for Model 320 assuming that the historical markup on product cost and selling price is maintained. Round your final answer to two decimal places. b. Determine the required cost reduction Enter as a positive number Round your final anwwer to two decimal places c. Evaluate the three engineering improvements together to determine if the required cost reduction (dr) can be achieved. Enter all amounts as positive numbers. Do not round interim calculations but round your final answers to two decimal places 1. Direct labor reduction 2. Additional inspection 3. Injection molding productivity improvement Total savings

Answer 1

Answer-

a)
markup on Product cost = (sell price-cost)/cost	(325-260)/260	25.00%
Hence Target cost = sell price - markup
Hence Target cost = sell price -(25%*target cost)
let the target cost be x
x+0.25x=310
x=310/1.25
x=	248.00

b) required cost reduction = 260-248

12.00

c)	calculation	$
1.) direct labor reduction	21*9/60	3.15
2.) Additional inspection	7 - (21*6/60)	4.90
3.) Injection molding productivity improvement	((50*0.30)+(20*0.45))*1/4	6.00
Total savings		14.05

The total savings exceeds the required target cost reduction by $2.05. Thus, these improvements are sufficient to meet the target cost.