Exercise 22-20B Determining transfer prices LO C2 The trailer division of Baxter
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Exercise 22-20B Determining transfer prices LO C2
The trailer division of Baxter Bicycles makes bike trailers that attach to bicycles and can carry children or cargo. The trailers have a retail price of $103 each. Each trailer incurs $35 of variable manufacturing costs. The trailer division has capacity for 23,000 trailers per year and incurs fixed costs of $480,000 per year.
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1. Assume the assembly division of Baxter Bicycles wants to buy 5,000 trailers per year from the trailer division. If the trailer division can sell all of the trailers it manufactures to outside customers, what price should be used on transfers between Baxter Bicycles's divisions?
2. Assume the trailer division currently only sells 10,500 trailers to outside customers, and the assembly division wants to buy 5,000 trailers per year from the trailer division. What is the range of acceptable prices that could be used on transfers between Baxter Bicycles's divisions?
Explanation / Answer
1) Transfer price if Trailer division does not have spare capacity. Transfer price = Variable cost+contribution margin to be lost = $35+($103-$35) = $103 Transfer price per trailer is $103 2) Transfer range if trailer division has sufficient capacity Transfer price per trailer will be at least $35 but not more than $103
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