The total product cost is $141,000, total period cost is $57,000, total conversion cost is $61,000, and the total prime cost is $122,000.
In business terms, costs and expenses are categorized differently. The product costs are the costs involved directly in manufacturing a product, which include direct materials, direct labor, and manufacturing overhead. Therefore, the total product cost would be $80,000 (direct materials) + $42,000 (direct labor) + $19,000 (manufacturing overhead) = $141,000.
On the other hand, period costs are the costs that are not directly tied to a product, like selling and administrative expenses. Therefore, the total period cost is $22,000 (selling expenses) + $35,000 (administrative expenses) = $57,000.
Conversion costs are the costs of converting the raw materials into a finished product, these are direct labor and manufacturing overhead. So the conversion cost is = $42,000 (direct labor) + $19,000 (manufacturing overhead) = $61,000. The prime costs refer to the direct costs of production, these are direct materials and direct labor, prime cost = $80,000 (direct materials) + $42,000 (direct labor) = $122,000.
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Answer:
Marketing mix.
Explanation:
Marketing mix is defined as a set of elements that make up marketing actions in an organization. According to Kotler, the purpose of the marketing mix is to help the company achieve its goals in the market by using a set of marketing tools.
There are several models developed to represent the marketing mix, but the most used by organizations is represented by four essential pillars for the development of any marketing strategy, which are the 4P's of marketing: product, price, place and promotion. For each variable there are distinct and relevant activities:
Case Questions (6 points each)
1)What is the force according to Porter’s competitive forces model, faced by the company? *
Customers
Suppliers
New market entrant
Traditional competitor
2)What is the information system strategy (or strategies) used by the company to face the forces? *
Focus on market niche
Focus on market niche & Low cost leadership
Focus on market niche & Customer intimacy
Product differentiation & Customer intimacy
3)What are the main IT components mentioned in this case? *
a) Software / Telecommunications / Physical facilities
b) Hardware / Software.
C) Software / Telecommunications / Hardware
d) Telecommunications / Software
4)If the company is not sure which IS strategy to use in order to face the competitive forces, which model may best help in this case? *
Porter competitive forces
Value chain
Porter strategies
Economic impacts
5)To which type of system the “Analytical Power” software belongs? *
DSS
ESS
MIS
TPS
Answer:
1.) Traditional competitor
2.) Product differentiation & Customer intimacy
3.) C
Software / Telecommunications / Hardware
4.) Value chain
5.) ESS
Explanation:
1.) The company was aware of its competitors' marketing strategies and pricing to any changes made. Rivalry among competitors tends to be cutthroat and industry profitability low while having the potential factors.
3.) An information system is essentially made up of five components hardware, software, database, network and people. These five components integrate to perform input, process, output, feedback and control. Hardware consists of input/output device, processor, operating system and media devices.
4.) Value chain is the process or activities by which a company adds value to an article, including production, marketing, and the provision of after-sales service.
5.) An Executive Support System (ESS) is software that allows users to transform enterprise data into quickly accessible and executive-level reports, An ESS enhances decision making for executives. ESS is also known asExecutive Information System (EIS).
Answer 1):
The correct option here is D) Traditional Competitors
Explanation:
The five forces of competition when analyzed they help a business understand the factors in its external environment. It is also helpful in crafting a strong business strategy that increases the chances of the company to win over its competition in the market.
If sales were declining due to very mouth-watering offers from other companies who are over 20 years in the industry, then the force Lebanese Steel Factory has to contend with is Traditional Competitors.
Answer 2)
The correct option here is C)
Explanation:
The information system deployed by Lebanese Steel Factory helped them to identify a niche area in the market which is the ability to customize product requests. By doing this, the demonstrated a kind of empathy for what the customer wants.
Their new system allowed customers to order for steel in a way no company in the market was doing it.
Answer 3)
The correct option her is B) Hardware/Software
Explanation:
There is no mention of telecommunications which is a technology that enables one to communicate via radio frequency over a long distance.
The "Analytical Power" however is a software. Softwares require hardware (that is a computer which may or may not be remote) to run.
Answer 4)
The correct option here is C) Porters Strategies
Explanation:
There are generic strategies identified by Michael Porter that a business can adopt to beat the competition. They are:
Cost Leadership, Differentiation and Focus strategies.
Answer 5)
The correct option here is C) MIS
Explanation:
MIS stands for Management Information System.
This is often used to refer to any computerized system that enables one to acquire data, process data into usable information, store both the data and information and generate reports based on such information for use in decision making by the management.
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Answer:
3,074 units sold or total revenue of $236,698 per year
Explanation:
cost of machine $540,000
depreciation expense per year = $540,000 / 5 = $108,000
contribution margin per unit sold = $77 - $29 = $48
we generally calculate the financial break even point of a business by using the following formula:
= EBIT × (1 - interest expense) × (1 - tax rate) - preferred dividends
But when we are dealing with projects, the financial break even point is the sales level at which the project's NPV = $0. If the sales level is lower, then the project will be rejected, and if the sales level is higher, then it should be accepted.
using an annuity formula, the free cash flow per year needed for the NPV = $0 is $540,000 / 3.8897 (PV annuity factor, 9%, 5 periods) = $138,828.19
$138,828.19 = {[(unit sales x $48) - $108,000] x 0.78} + $108,000
$30,828.19 = [(unit sales x $48) - $108,000] x 0.78
$39,523.32 = (unit sales x $48) - $108,000
$147,523.32 = unit sales x $48
unit sales = $147,523.32 / $48 = 3,073.40 units ≈ 3,074 units sold
The financial break-even point is approximately 5,104 units.
The financial break-even point can be calculated by determining the number of units that need to be sold in order to cover the fixed costs. First, we need to calculate the contribution margin per unit, which is the sales price per unit minus the variable cost per unit. In this case, it is $77 - $29 = $48. Next, we divide the fixed costs by the contribution margin per unit to find the break-even point in units. Using the formula: Break-even point (in units) = Fixed costs / Contribution margin per unit. Plugging in the numbers, we get: $245,000 / $48 = 5,104.17. Therefore, the financial break-even point is approximately 5,104 units.
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Answer:
True
Explanation:
As long as the statement holds that ''each company's profit depends on whether Little Kona enters...'' and the response of the existing monopoly to charge a low price to keep its market share; then both little Kona and Big Brew have a dominant strategy in this game.
They both will become a duopoly which implies that there will be two players in the industry and the price of Big Brow will be greatly influenced by the presence of Little Kona. Big Brow could charge as high as $8 if Little Kona is absent but as low as $2 if Little Kona is enters the industry.
Obviously they both have a dominant strategy, considering further that the entrance of Little Kona changes the industry structure from monopoly to duopoly
1. Direct labor
2. Executive salaries
3. Factory rent
4. Property taxes, factory.
5. Boxes used for packaging detergent produced by the company
6. Salespersons' commissions
7. Supervisor's salary, factory
8. Depreciation, executive autos.
9. Wages of workers assembling computers
10. Insurance, finished goods warehouses
11. Lubricants for production equipment.
12. Advertising costs
13. Microchips used in producing calculators.