Wagner Company sells Product A for $28 per unit. Wagner's unit product cost based on the full capacity of 200,000 units is as follows:Direct Materials$7Direct Labour$5Manufacturing Overhead$9Unit Product Cost$21A special order offering to buy 20,000 units has been received from a foreign distributor. The only selling costs that would be incurred on this order would be $4 per unit for shipping. Wagner has sufficient idle capacity to manufacture the additional units. Two-thirds of the manufacturing overhead is fixed and would not be affected by this order. Assume that direct labour is an avoidable cost in this decision. In negotiating a price for the special order, what should be the minimum acceptable selling price per unit? Question 16Answera.$21b.$19c.$28d.$12
Question
Wagner Company sells Product A for 7Direct Labour9Unit Product Cost4 per unit for shipping. Wagner has sufficient idle capacity to manufacture the additional units. Two-thirds of the manufacturing overhead is fixed and would not be affected by this order. Assume that direct labour is an avoidable cost in this decision. In negotiating a price for the special order, what should be the minimum acceptable selling price per unit? Question 16Answera.19c.12
Solution
To calculate the minimum acceptable selling price per unit, we need to consider the variable costs associated with the production of the additional units.
The fixed manufacturing overhead does not change with the level of production, so we only need to consider the variable portion of the manufacturing overhead. Since two-thirds of the manufacturing overhead is fixed, one-third is variable. Therefore, the variable manufacturing overhead per unit is 3.
The direct materials cost per unit is 5.
The additional selling cost for shipping is $4 per unit.
Adding these costs together, the total variable cost per unit is 5 (direct labour) + 4 (shipping) = $19.
Therefore, the minimum acceptable selling price per unit should cover these variable costs, which is 19.
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