COnsider a project to supply 100 million postage stamps per year to canada post for the next 5 years. You have an idle parcel of land available that cost $1,000,000 five years ago; if you sold the land today, it would net you $1,500,000 after tax. If you sold the land five years from now, the land can be sold again for $1,500,000 after tax. You will need to install $3,800,000 in new manufacturing plant and equip to actually produce stamps; this plant and equipment will be depreciated straight-line to zero over the project's five year life. The equipment can be sold for $680,000 at the end of the project. You will need $500,000 in initial net working capital for the project and an additional $50,000 every year thereafter. Your production costs are $0.5 cents per stamp, and you have fixed costs of $900,00 per year. If he tax rate is 34 percent and your required return on the project is 12 percent, what bid price should you submit on the contract?
Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis
Title: Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis Author: Blocher, Stout & Cokins ISBN: 978-0-07-352694-2 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin Application of Factory Overhead Tomek Company uses a job costing system that applies factory overhead on the basis of direct labor-hours. The company’s factory overhead budget for 2010 included the following estimates: Budgeted total factory overhead $568,000 Budgeted total direct labor-hours 71,000 blo26940_ch04_091-126.indd 112 blo26940_ch04_091-126.indd 112 6/9/09 2:23:01 PM 6/9/09 2:23:01 PM Confirming Pages Chapter 4 Job Costing 113 At the end of the year, the company shows these results: Actual factory overhead $582,250 Actual direct labor-hours 71,500 The following amounts of the year’s applied factory overhead remained in the various manufacturing accounts: Applied Factory Overhead Work-in-process inventory $139,000 Finished goods inventory 216,840 Cost of goods sold 200,160 Required 1. Compute the firm’s predet...
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