Question

The management of Kabanuck Corporation is considering dropping product V41B. Data from the company's accounting system appear below:Sales $939,000Variable expenses $413,500Fixed manufacturing expenses $525,500Fixed selling and administrative expenses $353,000All fixed expenses of the company are fully allocated to products in the company's accounting system. Further investigation has revealed that $215,500 of the fixed manufacturing expenses and $126,500 of the fixed selling and administrative expenses are avoidable if product V41B is discontinued.What would be the effect on the company's overall net operating income if product V41B were dropped?

Answer 1

Answer:

It would be a differential loss of 174,500

Explanation:

Continue Or discontinued  

                       Continued    Discontinued Differential

Sales                     930,000            -                   (930,000)

Variable                    (413,500)           -                     413,500

Tracable Fixed Cost (342,000)           -                    342,000

Allocate cost           (536,500)      (536,500)               -  

Result                   (362,000)      (536,500)       (174,500)

If discountinued, sales, variable cost and tracable fixed cost are zero

Tracable cost

215,500 + 126,500

Allocate cost

total fixed cost - tracable cost

(525,500 + 353,000)   - 342,000

Once we got the numbers we calculate the diffferential income/loss