1.(TCO F) Willow Creek Corporation bases its predetermined overhead rate on the estimated labor hours for the upcoming year. At the beginning of the most recently completed year the company estimated the labor hours for the upcoming year at 38 500 labor hours. The estimated variable manufacturing overhead was $7.37 per labor hour and the estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead was $601 328. The actual labor hours for the year turned out to be 41 721 labor hours.Required:Compute the company’s predetermined overhead rate for the recently completed year.(Points : 25)2.(TCO F) Matuseski Corporation is preparing its cash budget for October. The budgeted beginning cash balance is $17 000. Budgeted cash receipts total $187 000 and budgeted cash disbursements total $177 000. The desired ending cash balance is $40 000. The company can borrow up to $120 000 at any time from a local bank with interest not due until the following month.Required:Prepare the company’s cash budget for October in good form.(Points : 25)Page 22.(TCO D) Lindon Company uses 4 500 units of Part X each year as a component in the assembly of one of its products. The company is presently producing Part X internally at a total cost of $69 000 as follows:Direct materials$16 000Direct labor18 000Variable manufacturing overhead10 000Fixed manufacturing overhead25 000Total costs$69 000An outside supplier has offered to provide Part X at a price of $11 per unit. If Lindon stops producing the part internally one third of the manufacturing overhead would be eliminated.Required: Prepare a make-or-buy analysis showing the annual advantage or disadvantage of accepting the outside supplier’s offer.(Points : 30)3.(TCO E) Topple Company produces a single product. Operating data for the company and its absorption costing income statement for the last year is presented below:Units in beginning inventory0Units produced9 000Units sold7 000Sales$100 000Less cost of goods sold:Beginning inventory0Add cost of goods manufactured54 000Goods available for sale54 000Less ending inventory12 000Cost of goods sold42 000Gross margin58 000Less selling and admin. expenses28 000Net operating income$30 000Variable manufacturing costs are $4 per unit. Fixed factory overhead totals $18 000 for the year. This overhead was applied at a rate of $2 per unit. Variable selling and administrative expenses were $1 per unit sold.Required: Prepare a new income statement for the year using variable costing. Comment on the differences between the absorption costing and the variable costing income statements. (Points : 30)4.(TCO A) The following data (in thousands of dollars) have been taken from the accounting records of the Maroon Corporation for the just-completed year.Sales1 150Raw materials inventory beginning15Raw materials inventory ending40Purchases of raw materials150Direct labor250Manufacturing overhead300Administrative expenses500Selling expenses300Work in process inventory beginning100Work in process inventory ending150Finished goods inventory beginning80Finished goods inventory ending120Use the above data to prepare (in thousands of dollars) a schedule of Cost of Goods Manufactured and a Schedule of Cost of Goods Sold for the year. In addition what is the impact on the financial statements if the ending finished goods inventory is overstated or understated?(Points : 25)1.(TCO F) Carter Corporation uses the weighted-average method in its process costing system. Data concerning the first processing department for the most recent month are listed below.Work in process beginning:Units in beginning work-in-process inventory400Materials costs$6 900Conversion costs$2 500Percentage complete for materials80%Percentage complete for conversion15%Units started into production during the month6 000Units transferred to the next department during the month5 800Materials costs added during the month$112 500Conversion costs added during the month$210 300Ending work in process:Units in ending work-in-process inventory1 400Percentage complete for materials70%Percentage complete for conversion40%Required: Calculate the equivalent units for materials (using the weighted-average method) for the month in the first processing department.(Points : 25)2.(TCO G) (Ignore income taxes in this problem.) Five years ago the City of Paranoya spent $30 000 to purchase a computerized radar system called W.A.S.T.E. (Watching Aliens Sent To Earth). Recently a sales rep from W.A.S.T.E. Radar Company told the city manager about a new and improved radar system that can be purchased for $50 000. The rep also told the manager that the company would give the city $10 000 in trade on the old system. The new system will last 10 years. The old system will also last that long but only if a $4 000 upgrade is done in 5 years. The manager assembled the following information to use in the decision regarding which system is more desirable:Old SystemNew SystemCost of radar system$30 000$50 000Current salvage value$10 000-Salvage value in 10 years$5 000$8 000Annual operating costs$34 000$29 000Upgrade required in 5 years$4 000-Discount rate14 %Required:(a) What is the City of Paranoya’s net present value for the decision described above? Use the total cost approach.(b) Should the City of Paranoya purchase the new system or keep the old system?(Points : 35)3.(TCO B) Aziz Corporation produces and sells a single product. Data concerning that product appear below.Selling price per unit$130.00Variable expense per unit$27.30Fixed expense per month$165 347Required:Determine the monthly break-even in either unit or total dollar sales. Show your work!(Points : 25)
