Accept or Reject a Special Order Moore Company manufactures

Accept or Reject a Special Order

Moore Company manufactures and sells a single product called a Lop. Operating at capacity, the company can produce and sell 30,000 Lops per year. Costs associated with this level of production and sales are given below:

Unit                     Total

Direct materials                                            $15                    $450,000

Direct labour                                                     8                      240,000

Variable manufacturing overhead                3                        90,000

Fixed manufacturing overhead                     9                      270,000

Variable selling expense                                4                      120,000

Fixed selling expense                                     6                      180,000

Total cost                                                       $45                 $1,350,000

The Lops normally sell for $50 each. Fixed manufacturing overhead is constant at $270,000 per year within the range of 25,000 through 30,000 Lops per year.

Required:

Assume that due to a recession, Moore Company expects to sell only 25,000 Lops through regular channels next year. A large retail chain has offered to purchase 5,000 Lops if Moore is willing to accept a 16% discount off the regular price. There would be no sales commissions on this order; so variable selling expenses would be slashed by 75%. However, Moore Company would have to purchase a special machine to engrave the retail chain\'s name on the 5,000 units. This machine would cost $10,000. Moore Company has no assurance that the retail chain will purchase additional units in the future. Determine the impact on profits next year if this special order is accepted.

Refer to the original data. Assume again that Moore Company expects to sell only 25,000 Lops through regular channels next year. The provincial government would like to make a one-time- only purchase of 5,000 Lops. The government would pay a fixed fee of $1.80 per Lop, and it would reimburse Moore Company for all costs of production (variable and fixed) associated with the units. Since the government would pick up the Lops with its own trucks, there would be no variable selling expenses associated with this order. If Moore Company accepts the order, by how much will profits increase or decrease for the year?

Assume the same situation as that described in (2) above, except that the company expects to sell 30,000 Lops through regular channels next year, so accepting the government\'s order would require giving up regular sales of 5,000 Lops. If the government\'s order is accepted, by how much will profits increase or decrease from what they would be if the 5,000 Lops were sold through regular channels?

Solution

Part-1 25000 Regular Channel 5000 to Retial chain Working Per Unit Total Per Unit Total Unit 25000 5000 Selling Price $50 $1,250,000 $42 $210,000 16% discount on seling price to Retail Variable Cost: Direct Material $15 $375,000 $15 $75,000 Direct Labor $8 $200,000 $8 $40,000 Variable Overhead $3 $75,000 $3 $15,000 Variable Selling overhead $4 $100,000 $1 $5,000 Reduced by 75% Total Variable Cost $30 $750,000 $27 $135,000 Fixed Cost: Overhead $270,000 $0 $0 Aborbed in 25000 Selling Overhead $180,000 $0 $0 Aborbed in 25000 Total Fixed Cost $450,000 $0 Special order cost $0 $0 $10,000 Total Cost $1,200,000 $145,000 Operating Income $50,000 $65,000 Part-2 Fee from government             $1.80 Fixed Cost from Government * $9.00 Total Revenue $10.80 Units sold 5000 Total Revenue/Profit $54,000.00 Since Government is reimbursing all production realted cost i.e. material/labor/variable/fixed overhead (not selling), and fixed overhead is irrelevant cost as it already absorbed by 25000 units, we will consider this as revenue. Part-3 if 5000 sold to Regular channel if 5000 sold to Government Selling Price 250000 54000 From Part-2 Less: Variable Cost Direct Material 15*5000 75000 0 Since reimbursed by government Direct Labor 8*5000 40000 0 Since reimbursed by government Variable Overhead 3*5000 15000 0 Since reimbursed by government Variable Selling 4*5000 20000 0 Nil as given in que Margin 100000 54000 Profit will decrease by 100000-54000=46000.