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kow [346]
3 years ago
5

Coed Scents, a national producer of young adult perfumes and colognes, needs to determine if it would be cheaper to produce 100,

000 bottles of its most popular perfume, Two AM, for sale in its college town shops or to purchase them from an outside supplier for $25 each. Cost information on internal production includes the following:
Total Cost Unit Cost
Direct materials $2,000,000 $ 20.00
Direct labor 350,000 3.50
Variable manufacturing overhead 150,000 1.50
Variable marketing overhead 250,000 2.50
Fixed plant overhead 300,000 3.00
Total $3,050,000 $30.50
Fixed overhead will continue whether Two AM is produced internally or externally. No additional costs of purchasing will be incurred beyond the purchase price.
Required:
1. What are the alternatives for Coed Scents?
2. List the relevant cost(s) of internal production and of external purchase.
3. Which alternative is more cost effective?
By how much?
$
4. Now assume that Coed Scents’ internal audit team learned through a special data analytics project that intellectual property theft is a significant threat for outsourced production. The team estimates that if Coed Scents outsources its production, it will need to spend $350,000 to manage intellectual property theft of its Two AM brand by competitors operating in the country where the outsourced production occurs. Which alternative is more cost effective?
By how much?
$
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1 answer:
melisa1 [442]3 years ago
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Answer:

Coed Scents

1. The alternatives for Coed Scents are to reduce cost of internal production or to renegotiate the external purchase price.

2. Relevant costs                                            Internal                External

                                               Total Cost Unit   Cost

Direct materials                          $2,000,000   $20.00

Direct labor                                      350,000        3.50

Variable manufacturing overhead  150,000         1.50

Total cost                                   $2,500,000   $25.00   $2,500,000 $25.00

3. No alternative is more cost-effective.  However, Coed Scents can reduce cost of internal production (materials, labor, and variable overhead).

4. Internal production becomes more cost-effective with this additional costs from outsourced production.  

The cost-effectiveness amounts to $350,000.

Explanation:

a) Data and Calculations:

Production units of Two AM = 100,000 bottles

Purchase price of outside supplier = $25

                                                  Total Cost Unit   Cost

Direct materials                          $2,000,000  $ 20.00

Direct labor                                      350,000        3.50

Variable manufacturing overhead  150,000         1.50

Variable marketing overhead        250,000        2.50

Fixed plant overhead                     300,000        3.00

Total                                          $3,050,000    $30.50

Relevant costs                                            Internal                External

                                               Total Cost Unit   Cost

Direct materials                          $2,000,000   $20.00

Direct labor                                      350,000        3.50

Variable manufacturing overhead  150,000         1.50

Total cost                                   $2,500,000   $25.00   $2,500,000 $25.00

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