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Usimov [2.4K]
2 years ago
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Describe the life cycle of a product and explain profitability and sales volume at each stage

Business
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Helga [31]2 years ago
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Answer:

Product Life Cycle: Overview

The product life cycle (PLC) describes a product's life in the market with respect to business/commercial costs and sales measures. It proceeds through multiple phases, involves many professional disciplines and requires many skills, tools and processes.

This is not to say that product lives cannot be extended – there are many good examples of this – but rather, each product has a ‘natural’ life through which it is expected to pass.

The stages of the product life cycle are:

Introduction

Growth

Maturity

Decline

PLC management makes these three assumptions:

Products have a limited life and, thus, every product has a life cycle.

Product sales pass through distinct stages, each of which poses different challenges, problems and opportunities to its parent company.

Products will have different marketing, financing, manufacturing, purchasing and human resource requirements at the various stages of its life cycle.

The product life cycle begins with the introduction stage (see ). Just because a product successfully completes the launch stage and starts its life cycle, the company cannot take its success for granted.

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Product Development and Product Life Cycle: The Product Life Cycle follows directly after new product development.

A company must succeed at both developing new products and managing them in the face of changing tastes, technologies and competition. A good product manager should find new products to replace those that are in the declining stage of their life cycles; learning how to manage products optimally as they move from one stage to the next.

Product Lifecycle Management Stage 1: Market Introduction

This stage is characterized by a low growth rate of sales as the product is newly launched and consumers may not know much about it. Traditionally, a company usually incurs losses rather than profits during this phase. Especially if the product is new on the market, users may not be aware of its true potential, necessitating widespread information and advertising campaigns through various media.

However, this stage also offers its share of opportunities. For example, there may be less competition. In some instances, a monopoly may be created if the product proves very effective and is in great demand.

Characteristics of the introduction stage are:

High costs due to initial marketing, advertising, distribution and so on.

Sales volumes are low, increasing slowly

There may be little to no competition

Demand must be created through promotion and awareness campaigns

Customers must be prompted to try the product.

Little or no profit is made owing to high costs and low sales volumes

Growth

During the growth stage, the public becomes more aware of the product; as sales and revenues start to increase, profits begin to accrue.

Explanation:

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<em><u>Journal Entries</u></em>

Sr No                      Particulars                 Debit                   Credit

a.                      Materials                    $200,000

                     Accounts Payable                                         $ 200,000

Purchased raw materials on credit, $200,000.

b.             Work in Process Job 136        $ 48,000

              Work in Process Job 137            32,000

               Work in Process Job 138           19,200

              Work in Process Job 139           22,400

                Work in Process Job 140           6,400

                                       Materials                                      $  128,000  

Total direct materials 128,000 issued.

           Factory Overhead Control Account  19,500

                                    Materials                                      $  19,500  

Indirect materials 19,500 issued.

c.                  Factory Overhead- Equip       15,000

                                     Cash                                          15000    

Paid $15,000 cash to a computer consultant to reprogram factory equipment.

d.              Work in Process Job 136      $12,000

                Work in Process  Job 137      10,500

                 Work in Process Job 138      37,500

                 Work in Process Job 139      39,000

                Work in Process  Job 140       3,000      

       Factory Overhead Control Account  24,000

                    Wages Control Account                                $ 126,000

Total direct labor 102,000 charged to production, Indirect labor 24,000  Charged to  Factory Overhead.

e.                Work In Process Job 136      $24,000

                  Work in Process Job 138      75,000

                 Work in Process Job 139      78,000

                Applied Overhead                                           255,000

Applied overhead to Jobs 136, 138, and 139 at 200% of Direct Labor Cost.

         Applied Overhead Control Account  $ 255,000

               Factory Overhead Control Account                   $ 255,000

Applied Overhead Closed To Actual Overhead Account.

f.          Finished Goods Control  Account       $ 355,100

                                   Work in Process Job 136                  84000

                                   Work in Process Job 138                 131,700

                                     Work in Process Job 139              139,400

Transferred Jobs 136, 138, and 139 to Finished Goods.

g.                    Cost of Goods Sold          215,700

                      Finished Goods                                      215,700

Sold Jobs 136 and 138 on credit at a total price of $525,000.

                   Accounts Receivable          $525,000                

                                      Sales                                   $525,000

h.       Factory Overhead Control Account $ 149,500

               Provision For Depreciation Account            $68,000

               Prepaid Insurance Expense                           $ 10,000

    Accumulated Depreciation Factory Equip.             36,500

           Property Taxes Payable Account                      35,000

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i.          Work in Process  Job 136       21,000    

              Work in Process  Job 140       6,000    

               Factory Overhead Control Account              27,000

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