Blitch Products, Inc., has a Screen Division that manufactures and sells a number of products, including a standard screen that could be used by another division in the company, the Home Security Division, in one of its products. Data concerning that screen appear below: Capacity in units 45,000 Selling price to outside customers $ 53 Variable cost per unit $ 26 Fixed cost per unit (based on capacity) $ 16 The Home Security Division is currently purchasing 2,000 of these screens per year from an overseas supplier at a cost of $50 per screen. Assume that the Screen Division has enough idle capacity to handle all of the Home Security Division’s needs. Does there exist a transfer price that would make both the Screen and Home Security Division financially better off than if the Home Security Division were to continue buying its screens from the outside supplier? Multiple Choice Yes, both divisions are always better off regardless of whether the selling division has enough idle capacity to handle all of the buying division's needs. The answer cannot be determined from the information that has been provided. No, the selling division's price to outside customers is higher than the price that the buying division has to pay its outside supplier. Yes, the minimum transfer price that the selling division should be willing to accept is less than the maximum transfer price that the buying division would accept.

Horace society is planning its annual western fair raceway gala. the gala committee has assembled the following expected costs for the event: dinner (per person) $10 gaming token and program (per person) $2 prize payouts $4,300 tickets and advertising $800 private box suite rental $1,700 lottery licenses $200 the committee members would like to charge $40 per person for the evening’s activities. required: 1. what is the break-even point for the dinner-dance (in terms of the number of persons who must attend)? 2. assume that last year only 200 persons attended the dinner-dance. if the same number attend this year, what price per ticket must be charged in order to break even? 3. refer to the original data ($40 ticket price per person). prepare a cvp graph for the dinner- dance from zero tickets up to 600 tickets sold.

Selected t-account balances for bloomfield company are shown below as of january 31, which reflect its accounting adjustments. the firm uses a calendar-year accounting period, but prepares monthly accounting adjustments. suppliesjan. 31 bal. 1,800 1,800 jan. 31 bal. supplies expensejan. 31 bal. 1,920 1,148 jan. 31 bal. prepaid insurancejan. 31 bal. 1,148 1,148 jan. 31 bal. insurance expensejan. 31 bal. 164 164 jan. 31 bal. wages payablejan. 31 bal. 1,400 1,400 jan. 31 bal. wages expensejan. 31 bal. 6,400 6,400 jan. 31 bal. truckjan. 31 bal. 17,376 17,376 jan. 31 bal. accumulated depreciation -truckjan. 31 bal. 5,068 5,068 jan. 31 bal. a. if the amount in supplies expense represents the january 31 adjustment for the supplies used in january, and $1,240 worth of supplies were purchased during january, what was the january 1 beginning balance of supplies? $answerb. the amount in the insurance expense account represents the adjustment made at january 31 for january insurance expense. if the original insurance premium was for one year, what was the amount of the premium, and on what date did the insurance policy start? amount of the premium $answerthe policy began on answerjune 1july 1august 1september 1october 1november 1 of the previous year. c. if we assume that no beginning balance existed in either in either wage payable or wage expense on january 1, how much cash was paid as wages during january? $answerd. if the truck has a useful life of four years (or 48 months), what is the monthly amount of depreciation expense, and how many months has bloomfield owned the truck? answermonths

Exercise 2-12 cost behavior; high-low method [lo2-3, lo2-4] speedy parcel service operates a fleet of delivery trucks in a large metropolitan area. a careful study by the company’s cost analyst has determined that if a truck is driven 120,000 miles during a year, the average operating cost is 11.6 cents per mile. if a truck is driven only 80,000 miles during a year, the average operating cost increases to 13.6 cents per mile. required: 1.& 2. using the high-low method, estimate the variable and fixed cost elements of the annual cost of truck operation. (round the "variable cost per mile" to 3 decimal places.)