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A medium-sized manufacturing company, which operates in the electronics industry, has employed a firm of consultants to carry out a review of the company's planning and control systems. The company presently uses a traditional incremental budgeting system and the inventory management system is based on economic order quantities (EOQ) and reorder levels. The company's normal production patterns have changed significantly over the previous few years as a result of increasing demand for customized products. This has resulted in shorter production runs and difficulties with production and resource planning. The consultants have recommended the implementation of activity based budgeting and a manufacturing resource planning system to improve planning and resource management.
What are the benefits for the company that could occur following the introduction of an activity based budgeting system?
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You are a management accounting working for a car manufacturer. The company is publicly listed and has been around for many years.
The company produces 2 products. Car 1 and Car 2. Car 1 sells for 20,000 and Car 2 for 27,000.
Car 1 can be upgraded post production to the 1ZC model for 5,000 and Car 2 to the 2ZC model for 3,500.
Post production upgrade the 1ZC sells for 25,500 and the 2ZCfor 30,000.
The company sources all of its supplies for the same supplier and has access to a large workforce. As a result there are no bottlenecks or limiting factors to production.
Based on the information above the company should...
LM operates a parcel delivery service. Last year its employees delivered 15,120 parcels and travelled 120,960 kilometers. Total costs were $194,400.
LM has estimated that 70% of its total costs are variable with activity and that 60% of these costs vary with the number of parcels and the remainder vary with the distance travelled.
LM is preparing its budget for the forthcoming year using an incremental budgeting approach and has produced the following estimates:
* All costs will be 3% higher than the previous year due to inflation
* Efficiency will remain unchanged
* A total of 18,360 parcels will be delivered and 128,800 kilometers will be travelled.
Calculate the following costs to be included in the forthcoming year's budget:
(i) the total variable costs related to the number of parcels delivered.
(ii) the total variable costs related to the distance travelled.
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A company makes two products, product X with a contribution per unit of $10 and product Y with a contribution per unit of $4.
These products are sold in the mix 3:2 by volume and fixed costs are $38,000 per period.
The breakeven point for product Y, based on the expected sales mix is:
Information about a company's two products is as follows:

The products are currently sold in equal quantities.
Monthly fixed costs are $360,000.
What is the monthly breakeven sales revenue assuming a sales quantity mix of 50/50?
Give your answer to the nearest $.
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