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John Moffat.
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- September 1, 2017 at 5:42 am #404775
Hi John!
A company wants to decide whether to make its materials in-house or whether to sub-contract production to an external supplier. In the past it has made four materials in-house, but demand in the next year will exceed in-house production capacity of 8,000 units. All four materials are made on the same machines and require the same machine time per unit: machine time is the limiting production factor.
The following information is available.
Material W X Y Z
Units required 4,000 2,000 3,000 4,000
Variable cost of in-house
manufacture
$8 per unit $12 per unit $9 per unit $10 per unit
Directly attributable fixed
cost expenditure
$5,000 $8,000 $6,000 $7,000
Cost of external purchase $9 per unit $18 per unit $12 per unit $12 per unit
Directly attributable fixed costs are fixed cash expenditures that would be saved if production of the material in-house is stopped entirely.
If a decision is made solely on the basis of short-term cost considerations, what materials should the company purchase externally?1. Th answer is 4,000 units of W and 4,000 units of Z.
2. Could you help me how to deal with the attributable FC?September 1, 2017 at 6:40 am #404805Compare the extra cost of buying externally (so for X it is 9 – 8 = $1 per unit), with the saving of fixed costs if bought externally (which for X is $5,000).
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