Bachrodt Corporation uses activity-based costing to compute product margins. Overhead costs have already been allocated to the company's three activity cost pools--Processing, Supervising, and Other. The costs in those activity cost pools appear below:
Processing $ 21,600
Supervising $ 3,700
Other $ 10,700
Processing costs are assigned to products using machine-hours (MHs) and Supervising costs are assigned to products using the number of batches. The costs in the Other activity cost pool are not assigned to products. Activity data appear below
MHs (Processing) Batches (Supervising)
Product Y7 3,700 400
Product V0 6,300 600
Total 10,000 1,000
Finally, sales and direct cost data are combined with Processing and Supervising costs to determine product margins.
Product Y7 Product V0
Sales (total) $ 102,200 $ 78,900
Direct materials (total) $ 40,800 $ 39,100
Direct labor (total) $ 47,200 $ 22,300
What is the product margin for Product Y7 under activity-based costing?
a. -$3,800
b. $4,728
c. $14,200
d. $6,208

P8-4b dropping unfavorable division based on the following analysis of last year's operations of groves, inc., a financial vice president of the company believes that the firm's total net income could be increased by $160,000 if its design division were discontinued. (amounts are given in the thousands of dollars.) required provide answers for each of the following independent situations: a. assuming that total fixed costs and expenses would not be affected by discontinuing the design division, prepare an analysis showing why you agree or disagree with the vice president. b. assume that the discontinuance of the design division will enable the company to avoid 30% of the fixed portion of cost of services and 40% of the fixed operating expenses allocated to the design division. calculate the resulting effect on net income. c. assume that in addition to the cost avoidance in requirement (b), the capacity released by discontinuance of the design division can be used to provide 6,000 new services that would have a variable cost per service of $60 and would require additional fixed costs totaling $68,000. at what unit price must the new service be sold if groves is to increase its total net income by $180,000?