Pietarsaari Oy, a Finnish company, produces cross-country ski poles that it sell
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Question
Pietarsaari Oy, a Finnish company, produces cross-country ski poles that it sells for %u20AC31 a pair. (The Finnish unit of currency, the euro, is denoted by %u20AC.) Operating at capacity, the company can produce 51,000 pairs of ski poles a year. Costs associated with this level of production and sales are given below:
The Finnish army would like to make a one-time-only purchase of 9,300 pairs of ski poles for its mountain troops. The army would pay a fixed fee of %u20AC4 per pair, and in addition it would reimburse the Pietarsaari Oy company for its unit manufacturing costs (both fixed and variable). Due to a recession, the company would otherwise produce and sell only 41,700 pairs of ski poles this year. (Total fixed manufacturing overhead cost would be the same whether 41,700 pairs or 51,000 pairs of ski poles were produced.) The company would not incur its usual variable selling expenses with this special order.
If the Pietarsaari Oy company accepts the army%u2019s offer, by how much would net operating income increase or decrease from what it would be if only 41,700 pairs of ski poles were produced and sold during the year? (Input the amount as a positive value. Omit the "%u20AC" sign in your response.)
Assume the same situation as described in (1) above, except that the company is already operating at capacity and could sell 51,000 pairs of ski poles through regular channels. Thus, accepting the army%u2019s offer would require giving up sales of 9,300 pairs at the normal price of %u20AC31 a pair. If the army%u2019s offer is accepted, by how much will net operating income increase or decrease from what it would be if the 9,300 pairs were sold through regular channels? (Input the amount as a positive value. Omit the "%u20AC" sign in your response.)
Pietarsaari Oy, a Finnish company, produces cross-country ski poles that it sells for %u20AC31 a pair. (The Finnish unit of currency, the euro, is denoted by %u20AC.) Operating at capacity, the company can produce 51,000 pairs of ski poles a year. Costs associated with this level of production and sales are given below:
Explanation / Answer
You just have to find which revenues and costs are relevant and ignore the rest. Relevant costs are those that will change.
The extra %u20AC4 per pair revenue is relevant.
4 x 10,000 = %u20AC40,000 extra revenue
Since the Finnish Army is going to reimburse these costs, they are irrelevant.
Direct materials
Direct labor
Variable manufacturing overhead
The Finnish Army is also going to reimburse for the Fixed Manufacturing Overhead, even though it is considered a sunk cost (it's the same whether 40,000 or 50,000 is produced). So that will be a gain of %u20AC5 per pair.
5 x 10,000 = %u20AC50,000
Variable Selling Expenses would not be incurred and Fixed Selling Expenses would remain the same (sunk costs). So both of these costs are also irrelevant.
So net operating income will increase by:
40,000 + 50,000 = 90,000