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- November 29, 2016 at 9:02 pm #352410
Orange Company, has two divisions: A and B. A currently sells a diode reducer to manufacturers of aircraft navigation systems for $1,550 per unit. Variable costs amount to $1,000, and demand for this product currently exceeds the division’s ability to supply the marketplace.
Despite this situation, Orange Company is considering another use for the diode reducer, namely, integration into a satellite positioning system that would be made by B. The positioning system has an anticipated selling price of $2,800 and requires an additional $1,340 of variable manufacturing costs. A transfer price of $1,500 has been established for the diode reducer.
Top management is anxious to introduce the positioning system; however, unless the transfer is made, an introduction will not be possible because of the difficulty of obtaining needed diode reducers. A and B are in the process of recovering from previous financial problems, and neither division can afford any future losses. The company uses responsibility accounting and ROI in measuring divisional performance, and awards bonuses to divisional management.
Required:
(a) How would A’s divisional manager likely react to the decision to transfer diode reducers to B? Show computations to support your answer.
Diode reducer divisional manager will unhappy as the selling price is $1550 but the transfer price is $1500, need suffer $50 per unit(b) How would B’s divisional management likely react to the $1,500 transfer price? Show computations to support your answer.
Cost based – ($2,800 – $$1,500) = -$1,300 (Profit = $0)(c) Assume that a lower transfer price is desired. Should top management lower the price or should the price be lowered by another means? Explain.
Optimum Transfer price = MCss + Opportunities Cost or Market price – cost save = $1,340 + $550 = $1,890(d) From a contribution margin perspective, does Orange Company benefit more if it sells the diode reducers externally or transfers the reducers to B? By how much?
Diode reducer more profitable sell to externally because it get the profit $550. If diode reducer sell to division B, it will suffer $50 loss.Kindly advice the answer or mistake.
Thanks.
November 30, 2016 at 5:39 am #352492Sorry, but we do not provide answers to full questions like this.
You must have an answer in the same book in which you found the question, and you should ask whatever it is in the answer that is not clear.
I assume you have watched my free lectures on transfer pricing?
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