Valcarcel Corporation manufactures and sells one product. The following information pertains to the company’s first year of operations: Variable cost per unit:
Direct materials $ 67
Fixed costs per year:
Direct labor $ 886,500
Fixed manufacturing overhead $ 2,068,500
Fixed selling and administrative expenses $ 1,254,000

The company does not have any variable manufacturing overhead costs or variable selling and administrative expenses. During its first year of operations, the company produced 59,100 units and sold 57,000 units. The company’s only product is sold for $152 per unit.

Required:

a-1. Assume the company uses super-variable costing. Compute the unit product cost for the year.

a-2. Prepare an income statement for the year.

b-1. Assume that the company uses a variable costing system that assigns $15 of direct labor cost to each unit that is produced. Compute the unit product cost for the year.

b-2. Prepare an income statement for the year.

c. Prepare a reconciliation that explains the difference between the super-variable costing and variable costing net incomes.

The sticky-price theory asserts that the output prices of some goods and services adjust slowly to changes in the price level. suppose firms announce the prices for their products in advance, based on an expected price level of 100 for the coming year. many of the firms sell their goods through catalogs and face high costs of reprinting if they change prices. the actual price level turns out to be 110. faced with high menu costs, the firms that rely on catalog sales choose not to adjust their prices. sales from catalogs will

White company has two departments, cutting and finishing. the company uses a job-order costing system and computes a predetermined overhead rate in each department. the cutting department bases its rate on machine-hours, and the finishing department bases its rate on direct labor-hours. at the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: department cutting finishing direct labor-hours 6,000 30,000 machine-hours 48,000 5,000 total fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 264,000 $ 366,000 variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 2.00 " variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour " $ 4.00 required: 1. compute the predetermined overhead rate for each department. 2. the job cost sheet for job 203, which was started and completed during the year, showed the following: department cutting finishing direct labor-hours 6 20 machine-hours 80 4 direct materials $ 500 $ 310 direct labor cost $ 108 $ 360 using the predetermined overhead rates that you computed in requirement (1), compute the total manufacturing cost assigned to job 203. 3. would you expect substantially different amounts of overhead cost to be assigned to some jobs if the company used a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours, rather than using departmental rates?

Seattle bank’s start-up division establishes new branch banks. each branch opens with three tellers. total teller cost per branch is $96,000 per year. the three tellers combined can process up to 90,000 customer transactions per year. if a branch does not attain a volume of at least 60,000 transactions during its first year of operations, it is closed. if the demand for services exceeds 90,000 transactions, an additional teller is hired and the branch is transferred from the start-up division to regular operations. required what is the relevant range of activity for new branch banks