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- December 4, 2016 at 9:03 pm #353843
Hi
Could you please me how the labour hours per unit is worked, to work out the contribution per hour. Please see the question below,
CSC Co is a health food company producing and selling three types of high-energy products: cakes, shakes and
cookies, to gyms and health food shops. Shakes are the newest of the three products and were first launched three
months ago. Each of the three products has two special ingredients, sourced from a remote part the world. The first
of these, Singa, is a super-energising rare type of caffeine. The second, Betta, is derived from an unusual plant
believed to have miraculous health benefits.
CSC Co’s projected manufacture costs and selling prices for the three products are as follows:
Cakes Cookies Shakes
Per unit $ $ $
Selling price 5·40 4·90 6·00
Costs:
Ingredients:
Singa ($1·20 per gram) 0·30 0·60 1·20
Ingredients: Betta ($1·50 per gram) 0·75 0·30 1·50
Other ingredients 0·25 0·45 0·90
Labour ($10 per hour) 1·00 1·20 0·80
Variable overheads 0·50 0·60 0·40
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Contribution 2·60 1·75 1·20For each of the three products, the expected demand for the next month is 11,200 cakes, 9,800 cookies and 2,500 shakes.The total fixed costs for the next month are $3,000.
CSC Co has just found out that the supply of Betta is going to be limited to 12,000 grams next month. Prior to this, CSC Co had signed a contract with a leading chain of gyms, Encompass Health, to supply it with 5,000 shakes each month, at a discounted price of $5·80 per shake, starting immediately. The order for the 5,000 shakes is not included in the expected demand levels above.Thanks
Jefzen2610
December 5, 2016 at 7:21 am #353921Since labour is $10 per hour, if the labour cost of cakes is $1.00 per unit, then the time per unit must be 1/10 = 0.2 hours.
Similarly for cookies and shakes, it must be 1.2/10 = 0.12 hours and 0.80/10 = 0.08 hours.(Please don’t type out whole questions, because of copyright issues)
December 5, 2016 at 7:46 pm #354273Thank you John,
Jefzen2610
December 6, 2016 at 7:30 am #354393You are welcome 🙂
November 26, 2017 at 6:54 pm #418123Hi John. Can you explain to me the calculation for optimum production plan & total profit from this same question above? I am really confused thnx
November 27, 2017 at 7:35 am #418353You must have an answer in the same book as the question, so ask about whatever it is in the calculation that you are not clear about – then I will help you.
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