Question

Portsmouth Company makes upholstered furniture. Its only variable cost is direct materials. The demand for the company's products far exceeds its manufacturing capacity. The bottleneck (or constraint) in the production process is upholstery labor-hours. Information concerning three of Portsmouth's upholstered chairs appears below: Selling price per unit Variable cost per unit Upholstery labor-hours per unit $ $ Recliner 1,340 $ 700 $ 10 hours Sofa Love Seat 1,790 $ 1,575 1,350 $ 1,200 11 hours 5 hours Required: 1. Portsmouth is considering paying its upholstery laborers hourly compensation, in addition to their usual salaries, to work overtime. Assuming that this extra time would be used to produce sofas, up to how much of an overtime premium per hour should the company be willing to pay to keep the upholstery shop open after normal working hours? 2. A small nearby upholstering company has offered to upholster furniture for Portsmouth at a price of $37 per hour. The management of Portsmouth is confident that this upholstering company's work is high quality and their craftsmen can work as quickly as Portsmouth's own craftsmen on the simpler upholstering jobs such as the Love Seat. How much additional contribution margin per hour can Portsmouth earn if it hires the nearby upholstering company to make Love Seats? 3. Should Portsmouth hire the nearby upholstering company?

Answer 1

ANSWER

1)
	Sofas
Selling price per unit	1,790
Less: Variable cost per unit	1,350
Contribution margin per unit	440
Upholstery shop time required to produce one unit	11
Contribution margin per unit of the constrained resource	40
Maximum overtime premium per hour = $40
2)
	Love seat
Selling price per unit	1,575
Less: Variable cost per unit	1,200
Contribution margin per unit	350
Upholstery shop time required to produce one unit	5
Contribution margin per unit of the constrained resource	70
Less: Additional cost per hour	37
Additional Contribution margin per hour	33
3).
Yes, hire the nearby upholstering company

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