Question : 7) What the change in the daily contribution margin if : 1217051

 

7) What is the change in the daily contribution margin if the change is made?

A) $(608)

B) $(634)

C) $(672)

D) $800

Answer the following questions using the information below:

 

Captain Carl’s Seascapes produces sea pictures for sale through catalogs. The company has two workstations, photo production and framing. The photo production station is limited by the speed of operating the photo development machine. Framing is limited by the speed of the employees. Framing normally waits for work from photo production. Each department works an eight-hour day. If Captain Carl’s Seascapes adds an earlier half shift so that photo production begins work four hours earlier than framing each day, the two departments generally finish their work at about the same time. Not only does this eliminate the bottleneck, but it also increases finished units produced each day by 200 units. All units produced can be sold. The cost of operating the photo production department four more hours each day is $1,250. The contribution margin of the finished products is $10 each.

 

8) What is the total production per day if the change is made?

A) 50 units

B) 200 units

C) 400 units

D) 600 units

 

9) What is the change in the daily contribution margin if the change is made?

A) $250

B) $750

C) $2,000

D) $800

10) The Glass Shop, a manufacturer of large windows, is experiencing a bottleneck in its plant. Setup time at one of its workstations has been identified as the culprit. A manager has proposed a plan to reduce setup time at a cost of $72,000. The change will result in 8,000 additional windows. The selling price per window is $18, direct labor costs are $3 per window, and the cost of direct materials is $5 per window. Assume all units produced can be sold. The change will result in an increase in the throughput contribution of:

A) $104,000

B) $80,000

C) $32,000

D) $8,000

 

11) The theory of constraints describes methods to maximize operating income when faced with some bottleneck and some nonbottleneck operations.

 

12) Throughput contribution is equal to revenues minus direct material and direct labor costs.

 

13) When considering the theory of constraints, operating costs refer to all costs involved in the manufacturing process.

14) The theory of constraints considers a short-run time horizon and assumes operating costs are fixed.

 

15) When a firm has a bottleneck machine, a good way to manage the bottleneck is to make sure that prior machines produce more units for the bottleneck machine to increase its throughput.

 

16) Brix, Inc., prepares frozen food for fast-food restaurants. It has two workstations, cooking and assembly. The cooking station is limited by the cooking time of the food. Assembly is limited by the speed of the workers. Assembly normally waits on food from cooking. Because the demand has increased in recent months to 2,800 dozen units, management is considering adding another cooking station or else having the cooks start to work earlier. The monthly cost of operating the cooking station one more hour each day is $2,400. The cost of adding another cooking station would add an average of $10 per hour. The current operating hours total eight hours a day, 22 days a month. The contribution margin of the finished products is currently $8 per dozen. Inventory carrying costs average $2.00 per dozen per month. Either the extra hour or the new cooking station would increase production by 20 dozen a day, with a long-run increase of 80 dozen units in finished goods inventory to 280 dozen.

 

Required:

a.What is the total production per month if the change is made?

 

b.What is the increase in the expected monthly product contribution for each of the possible changes? Assume long-run production equals sales.

 

 

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