S2 2023
Assessment task 3 –Case Study
DUE DATE AND TIME: Week 13
(15/10) at 23.55pm
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL GRADE: 40%:
A case study: Individual Assessment (3000 words)
The management of a company has appointed you as the management accountant to advise them on the following issues and in general, assess the company’s strategic decision to open a new plantand expand the production lines. The management has also asked you to support your arguments wCaitshecSatlucduyla:tions and research whenever applicable.
Point Piper is a manufacturing company which produces and sells child safety care seats for more than a decade. The company is a Pty Ltd and uses the services of 3 accountants. The management of the company has appointed you to advise them on the questions provided below and in general, assess the company’s strategic decision to open a new plant and expand the production lines.
Point Piper sells basic safety seats for $25 each. At present, the seats are manufactured in a small plant that relies heavily on direct labour workers. Thus, variable expenses are high, totaling $15 per
following results:
seat, of which 60% is direct labour cost. Last year, the company sold 30,000 of these seats, with the
Sales (30,000 seats) | $750,000 |
Variable expenses | 450,000 |
Contribution margin | 300,000 |
Fixed expenses | 210,000 |
Net operating income | $ 90,000 |
Point Piper uses a conventional volume-based costing system in which manufacturing overhead is
their operations and open a new plant with two new line of seats for protector and booster seats. applied to units based on direct labour-hours. The management of the company decides to expand
They have asked their accountants to produce data for the new plant. Data concerning the new plant with two new product lines appear below:
Data concerning manufacturing overhead and direct labour-hours for the upcoming year appear below:
Estimated total manufacturing overhead $1,980,000 Estimated total direct labour-hours 120,000 DLHs
Point Piper management has just approached the company’s bank with a request for a $30,000 90- day loan. The purpose of the loan is to assist the company in its expansion and acquiring machinery for the new plant. Because the company has had some difficulty in paying off its loans in the past, the loan officer has asked for a cash budget to help determine whether the loan should be provided. The following data are available for the months April through June, during which the loan will be used:
the loan period, the cash balance will be $24,000. Accounts receivable on
April 1 will total $140,000 of which $120,000 will be collected during April and $16,000 will be collected during May. The remainder will be uncollectible.
April | May | June | |
Sales (all on account) | $300,000 | $ 400,000 | $250,000 |
Raw Material purchases | $ 210,000 | $ 160,000 | $ 130,000 |
Payroll | $20,000 | $20,000 | $ 18,000 |
Lease payments | $22,000 | $22,000 | $22,000 |
Advertising | $60,000 | $60,000 | $50,000 |
Equipment purchases | — | — | $65,000 |
Depreciation | $ 15,000 | $ 15,000 | $ 15,000 |
Point Piper management has recently appointed a new general manager, Ms Anne Abbotte, to look after the new plant. Ms Abbotte has noticed that the company’s profit has been declining and the company is experiencing problems. After further investigation, Ms Abbotte found that the basic safety car seats that have been launched last year are no longer profitable. The company accountants prepared the June contribution format income statement for safety seats as below:
Flexible Budget | Actual | |
Sales (15,000safety seats) | $675,000 | $675,000 |
Variable expenses: Variable cost of goods sold * |
435,000 |
461,890 |
Variable selling expenses | 20,000 | 20,000 |
Total variable expenses | 455,000 | 481,890 |
Contribution margin | 220,000 | 193,110 |
Fixed expenses: | ||
Manufacturing overhead | 130,000 | 130,000 |
Selling and administrative | 84,000 | 84,000 |
Total fixed expenses | 214,000 | 214,000 |
Net operating income (loss) | $ 6,000 | $ (20,890) |
The new general manager, Anne Abbotte, has been given instructions to “get things under control.” Upon reviewing the income statement, Ms. Abbotte has concluded that the major problem lies in the variable cost of goods sold. She has been provided with the following standard costs per safety seats:
During June, the company produced 15,000 safety seats and incurred the following costs:
Required:
The management has also asked you to support your arguments with calculations and research whenever applicable.
selling price of its car seats. If Point Piper wants to maintain the same CM ratio as last year, what selling price per seat must it charge next year to cover the increased labour costs?
traditional costing system.
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Write a 500-word conclusion report which addresses in general your assessment of the Point
Piper management strategic decision to open the new plant and expand the business.
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