Richards Company manufactures a single product. All raw materials used are traceable to specific units of product. Current information for the company follows: Beginning raw materials inventory $ 23,000 Ending raw materials inventory 25,000 Raw material purchases 103,000 Beginning work in process inventory 53,000 Ending work in process inventory 38,000 Direct labor 143,000 Total factory overhead 73,000 Beginning finished goods inventory 68,000 Ending finished goods inventory 58,000 The company's cost of direct materials used, cost of goods manufactured and cost of goods sold is:

P8-4b dropping unfavorable division based on the following analysis of last year's operations of groves, inc., a financial vice president of the company believes that the firm's total net income could be increased by $160,000 if its design division were discontinued. (amounts are given in the thousands of dollars.) required provide answers for each of the following independent situations: a. assuming that total fixed costs and expenses would not be affected by discontinuing the design division, prepare an analysis showing why you agree or disagree with the vice president. b. assume that the discontinuance of the design division will enable the company to avoid 30% of the fixed portion of cost of services and 40% of the fixed operating expenses allocated to the design division. calculate the resulting effect on net income. c. assume that in addition to the cost avoidance in requirement (b), the capacity released by discontinuance of the design division can be used to provide 6,000 new services that would have a variable cost per service of $60 and would require additional fixed costs totaling $68,000. at what unit price must the new service be sold if groves is to increase its total net income by $180,000?