Reference no: EM131818313 
                                                                               
                                       
Question 1:
Floppy Disk Inc. produces and sells recordable DVD and Blu-Ray packs. Revenue and cost information relating to the products follow:
Product
|   | DVD | Blu-Ray | 
| Selling price per pack | $8.00 | $20.00 | 
| Variable expenses per pack | $3.20 | $10.50 | 
| Traceable fixed expenses per year | $138,000 | $45,000 | 
Common fixed expenses in the company total $105,000 annually. Last year the company produced and sold 37,500 DVD packs and 18,000 Blu-Ray packs.
Required:
- Prepare a contribution-format income statement for the year, segmented by product lines.
Question 2:
Larinore Corporation has a Castings Division that does casting work of various types. The company's Machine Products Division has asked the Castings Division to provide it with 20,000 special castings each year on a continuing basis. The special castings would require $10 per unit in variable production costs. The Machine Products Division has a bid from an outside supplier of $29 per unit for the castings.
In order to have time and space to produce the new castings, the Castings Division would have to cut back production of another casting: the RB4, which it presently is producing. The RB4 sells for $30 per unit, and requires $12 per unit in variable production costs. Boxing and shipping costs of the RB4 are $4 per unit. Boxing and shipping costs for the new special casting would be only $1 per unit. The company is now producing and selling 100,000 units of the RB4 each year. Production and sales of this casting would drop by 20% if the new casting is produced.
Required:
- What is the range of transfer prices within which both the divisions' profits would increase as a result of agreeing to the transfer of 20,000 castings per year from the Castings Division to the Machine Products Division?
- Is it in the best interests of Larinore Corporation for this transfer to take place? Explain. 
Question 3:
Financial data for Beaker Company for last year appear below:
|   | Beginning Balance | Ending Balance | 
| Assets: |   |   | 
| Cash | $50,000 | $70,000 | 
| Accounts receivable | 20,000 | 25,000 | 
| Inventory | 30,000 | 35,000 | 
| Plant and equipment (net) | 120,000 | 110,00 | 
| Total Assets | $220,000 | $240,000 | 
 
| Beginning Balance | Ending Balance | 
| Liabilities and owners' equity |   |   | 
| Accounts payable | $70,000 | $90,000 | 
| Long-term debt | 250,000 | 250,000 | 
| Owners' equity | (100,000) | (100,000) | 
| Total liabilities and owners' equity | $220,000 | $240,000 | 
 
| Beaker Company | 
| Income Statement | 
| Sales |   | $414,000 | 
| Less operating expenses |   | 351,900 | 
| Net operating income |   | 62,100 | 
| Less interest and taxes: |   |   | 
| Interest expense | $30,000 |   | 
| Tax expense | 10,000 | 40,000 | 
| Operating income |   | $22,100 | 
Required:
- Compute the company's margin, turnover, and return on investment for last year.
Question 4:
Outback Ltd. of Australia has two divisions, one in Perth and one in Darwin. Selected data on the two divisions follow:
|   | Perth | Darwin | 
| Sales | $9,000,000 | $20,000,000 | 
| Operating income | $630,000 | $1,800,000 | 
| Average operating assets | $3,000,000 | $10,000,000 | 
Required:
- Compute the return on investment (ROI) for each division.
- Assume that the company evaluates performance using residual income and that the minimum required rate of return for any division is 16%. Compute the residual income for each division.
- Is the Darwin Division's greater residual income an indication that it is better managed? Explain.
Question 5:
Maximum Efficiency Inc. is interested in cutting the amount of time between when a customer places an order and when the order is completed. For the first quarter of the year, the following data were reported:
| Inspection time | 0.3 | 
| Process time | 3.2 | 
| Wait time | 12.0 | 
| Queue time | 1.0 | 
| Move time | 0.5 | 
Required:
- Compute the throughput time.
- Compute the manufacturing cycle efficiency (MCE) for the quarter.
- What percentage of the throughput time was spent on non-value-added activities?
- Compute the delivery cycle time.
- If by using lean production all queue time can be eliminated in production, what will be the new MCE?