Mel’s Meals 2 Go purchases cookies that it includes in the
10,000 box lunches it prepares and sells annually. Mel’s kitchen
and adjoining meeting room operate at 70 percent of capacity. Mel’s
purchases the cookies for $0.78 each but is considering making them
instead. Mel’s can bake each cookie for $0.28 for materials, $0.15
for direct labor, and $0.53 for overhead without increasing its
capacity. The $0.53 for overhead includes an allocation of $0.34
per cookie for fixed overhead. However, total fixed overhead for
the company would not increase if Mel’s makes the cookies.
Mel himself has come to you for advice. “It would cost me $0.96 to
make the cookies, but only $0.78 to buy. Should I continue buying
them?” Materials and labor are variable costs, but variable
overhead would be only $0.19 per cookie. Two cookies are put into
every lunch.
Mel suddenly finds an opportunity to sell boxed dinners. The new opportunity would require the use of the 30 percent unused capacity. The contribution margin from the dinners would amount to $3,400 annually.
Required:
a. If Mel decides to sell dinners, what are the total costs for both making and buying the cookies?
Total Cost of Making Cookies |
|
Total Cost of Buying Cookies |
Answer :
(a)
Making Cookies | Buying Cookies | |
Purchase price ( 10000 * $ 0.78) | $ 7800 | |
Direct Material ( 10000 * $ 0.28) | $ 2800 | |
Direct Labor ( 100000* $ 0.15 ) | $ 1500 | |
Variable overhead ( 10000* $ 0.19) | $ 1900 | |
Total cost | $ 6200 | $ 7800 |
Note -1
Fixed overhead will be not included in total cost since it not relevant for decision making and it will incurred in both case ... ie making cookies and buying cookies .
(b) Mel Should not continue to buy the cookies and mel should make the cookies since total cost is less in making the cookies compare to buying the cookies.
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Mel’s Meals 2 Go purchases cookies that it includes in the
10,000 box lunches it prepares and sells annually. Mel’s kitchen
and adjoining meeting room operate at 70 percent of capacity. Mel’s
purchases the cookies for $0.60 each but is considering making them
instead. Mel’s can bake each cookie for $0.20 for materials, $0.15
for direct labor, and $0.45 for overhead without increasing its
capacity. The $0.45 for overhead...
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