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Can I get a new answer that is not posted.
Sherene Nili manages a company that produces wedding gowns. She produces both a custom product that is made to order and a standard product that is sold in bridal salons. Her accountant prepared the following forecasted income statement for March, which is a busy month:
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Ms. Nili already has orders for the 10 custom dresses reflected in the March forecasted income statement. The depreciation charges are for machines used in the respective product lines. Machines depreciate at the rate of $1 per hour based on hours used, so these are variable costs. In March, cutting and sewing machines are expected to operate for 900 hours, of which 600 hours will be used to make custom dresses. The rent is for the building space, which has been leased for several years at $7,000 per month. The rent, heat, and light are allocated to the product lines based on the amount of floor space occupied.
A valued customer, who is a wedding consultant, has asked Ms. Nili for a special favor. This customer has a client who wants to get married in early April. Ms. Nili’s company is working at capacity and would have to give up some other business to make this dress. She can’t renege on custom orders already agreed to, but she can reduce the number of standard dresses produced in March to 10. Ms. Nili would lose permanently the opportunity to make up the lost production of standard dresses because she has no unused capacity for the foreseeable future. The customer is willing to pay $24,000 for the special order. Materials and labor for the order will cost $6,000 and $10,000, respectively. The special order would require 140 hours of machine time. Ms. Nili’s company would save 150 hours of machine time from the standard dress business given up. Rent, heat and light, and other production costs would not be affected by the special order.
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Should Ms. Nili take the order? Explain your answer.
What is the minimum price Ms. Nili should accept to take the special order?
What are the other factors, if any, besides price that she should consider?
Custom Dresses Standard Dresses Total Number of dresses 10 20 30 Sales revenue $50,000 $30,000 $80,000 Materials $10,000 $ 8,000 $18,000 Labor 20,000 9,000 29,000 Machine depreciation 600 300 900 Rent 4,200 2,800 7,000 Heat and light 1,000 600 1,600 Other production costs 2,800 Marketing and administration 7,700 Total costs $67,000 Operating profit $13,000Explanation / Answer
a.) Price that can be paid for special order =$ 24,000
Material Cost =$6,000
Labor Cost =$10,000
Machine Depreciation =$140
Loss in Sales from Standard Order =$30,000 x 10/20 =$15,000
Savings in Material =$8,000 x 10/20 =$4,000
Savings in Labor =$ 9,000x10/20 =$4,500
Savings in Machine Depreciation =$ 300 x 10/20 =$150
Considering that the order is taken,
Total Benefit =$(24,000 - 15,000) - (6,000 - 4,000) - (10,000 - 4,500) - (140 - 150)
=$9,000 - 2,000 - 5,500 + 10
=$1,510
Since, the total benefit is coming out to be positive, the special order should be taken for processing.
b.) Minimum price Ms. Nili should accept must be one according to which the net benefit is positive.
Let P be the minimum Price,
=> (P - 15,000) - 2,000 - 5,500 + 10 >0
=> P-15,000 > 7,490
=> P > 21,490
Thus, minimum acceptable price must be $21,490
c.) Apart from considering only the benefit in numerical terms, Ms. Nili should also evaluate long term perspective of one time special order against the standard running orders. Since, the standard running orders will be permanently lost once she decides not to pursue them this month, it may lead to even higher losses. The custom special orders may or may not arrive at the same pace in future. Moreover, not doing the committed numbers for the standard order client may harm the relationship between buyer and seller and thus may impact the future orders from same customer.
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