Silven Industries, which manufactures and sells a highly successful line of summer lotions and insect repellents, has decided to
diversify in order to stabilize sales throughout the year. A natural area for the company to consider is the production of winter lotions and creams to prevent dry and chapped skin. After considerable research, a winter products line has been developed. However, Silven's president has decided to introduce only one of the new products for this coming winter. If the product is a success, further expansion in future years will be initiated.
The product selected (called Chap-Off is a lip balm that will be sold in a lipstick-type tube. The product will be sold to wholesalers in boxes of 24 tubes for $8 per box. Because of excess capacity, no additional fixed manufacturing overhead costs will be incurred to produce the product. However, a $135,000 charge for fixed manufacturing overhead will be absorbed by the product under the company's absorption costing system.
Using the estimated sales and production of 135,000 boxes of Chap-off, the Accounting Department has developed the following cost per box:
Direct materials $3.90
Direct labor 1.90
Manufacturing overhead 1.30
Total cost $7.10
The costs above include costs for producing both the lip balm and the tube that contains it. As an alternative to making the tubes, Silven has approached a supplier to discuss the possibility of purchasing the tubes for Chap-Off. The purchase price of the empty tubes from the supplier would be $1.40 per box of 24 tubes. If Silven Industries accepts the purchase proposal, direct labor and variable manufacturing overhead costs per box of Chap-Off would be reduced by 10% and direct materials costs would be reduced by 25%.
Required:
a. Calculate the total variable cost of producing one box of Chap-Off.
b. What would be the maximum purchase price acceptable to Silven Industries?
I believe the correct answer from the choices listed above is the third option. Explicit costs are easily identified because a recent market transaction is available to provide an accurate measure of costs. It <span>is a direct payment made to others in the course of running a business, such as wage, rent and materials.</span>
First line managers are the lowest forms of managers in an organizational structure. They are the managers that deals with employees directly. They operate their departments by assigning work to the employees and monitoring their actions. In this case, the activities of Brian which included making sure they work their scheduled hours, watching them interact with customers and so on indicates that he is a First-Level Manager.
