Recommend the primary way you would properly account for the related costs. Be sure to provide support for your recommendation.
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Haricharan G.
Arnold Technologies manufactures a variety of flash memory chips at its main plant in Taiwan. Some chips are sold to makers of electronic equipment while others are embedded into consumer products for sale under Arnold's house label, AT. Three of the chips that Arnold produces arise from a common production process. The first chip, Amber, is sold to a maker of smartphones and personal computers. The second chip, Bronze, is intended for a wireless and broadband communication firm. The third chip, Cobalt, is used to manufacture and market a solid-state device under the AT name. Data regarding these three products for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2017, are given below. Arnold incurred joint product costs up to the split-off point of $5,400,000 during the fiscal year. The head of Arnold, Amanda Peterson, is considering a variety of alternatives that would potentially change the way the three products are processed and sold. Proposed changes for each product are as follows: Amber chips can be incorporated into Arnold's own memory stick. However, this additional processing causes a loss of 27,500 units of Amber. The separable costs to further process Amber chips are estimated to be $750,000 annually. The memory stick would sell for $5.50 per unit. Arnold's R&D unit has recommended that the company process Bronze further into a 3D vertical chip and sell it to a high-end vendor of data center products. The additional processing would cost $1,000,000 annually and would result in 15% more units of product. The 3D vertical chip sells for $4.00 per unit. The third chip is currently incorporated into a solid-state device under the AT name. Galaxy Electronics has approached Arnold with an offer to purchase this chip at the split-off point for $2.40 per unit. Required: 1. Allocate the $5,400,000 joint production cost to Amber, Bronze, and AT with Cobalt using the NRV method. 2. Identify which of the three joint products Arnold should sell at the split-off point in the future and which of the three the company should process further to maximize operating income. Support your decisions with appropriate computations.
Akash M.
Hamilton, Inc., manufactures boom boxes (music systems with radio, cassette, and compact disc players) for several well-known companies. The boom boxes differ significantly in their complexity and their manufacturing batch sizes. The following costs were incurred in 2011 :a. Indirect manufacturing labor costs such as supervision that supports direct manufacturing labor, $\$ 1,450,000$ b. Procurement costs of placing purchase orders, receiving materials, and paying suppliers related to the number of purchase orders placed, $\$ 850,000$ c. cost of indirect materials, $\$ 275,000$ d. costs incurred to set up machines each time a different product needs to be manufactured, $\$ 630,000$ e. Designing processes, drawing process charts, making engineering process changes for products, $\$ 775,000$ f. Machine-related overhead costs such as depreciation, maintenance, production engineering, $\$ 1,500,000$ (These resources relate to the activity of running the machines.) g. Plant management, plant rent, and plant insurance, $\$ 925,000$ 1. Classify each of the preceding costs as output unit-level, batch-level, product-sustaining, or facilitysustaining. Explain each answer. 2. Consider two types of boom boxes made by Hamilton, Inc. One boom box is complex to make and is produced in many batches. The other boom box is simple to make and is produced in few batches. Suppose that Hamilton needs the same number of machine-hours to make each type of boom box and that Hamilton allocates all overhead costs using machine-hours as the only allocation base. How, if at all, would the boom boxes be miscosted? Briefly explain why.3. How is the cost hierarchy helpful to Hamilton in managing its business?
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