Plains Peanut Butter Company recently acquired a peanut-processing company that
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Question
Plains Peanut Butter Company recently acquired a peanut-processing company that has a normal annual capacity of 4,000,000 pounds and that sold 2,800,000 pounds last year at a price of $2.50 per pound. The purpose of the acquisition is to furnish peanuts for the peanut butter plant, which needs 1,600,000 pounds of peanuts per year. It has been purchasing peanuts from suppliers at the market price.
Production costs per pound of the peanut-processing company are as follows:
Management is trying to decide what transfer price to use for sales from the newly acquired Peanut Division to the Peanut Butter Division. The manager of the Peanut Division argues that $2.50, the market price, is appropriate. The manager of the Peanut Butter Division argues that the cost price of $1.54 (or perhaps even less) should be used since fixed overhead costs should be recomputed. Any output of the Peanut Division up to 2,800,000 pounds that is not sold to the Peanut Butter Division could be sold to regular customers at $2.50 per pound.
(a) Compute the annual gross profit for the Peanut Division using a transfer price of $2.50.
(b) Compute the annual gross profit for the Peanut Division using a transfer price of $1.54.
Explanation / Answer
Peanut Division a Annual Gross Profit Using Transfer Price @2.50 Details Amt $/Unit Total Amt $ Units sold lb 2,800,000 Sales Revenue 2.50 7,000,000 Direct Materials 0.80 2,240,000 Direct Labor 0.42 1,176,000 Variable Overhead 0.12 336,000 Fixed Overhead 0.20 560,000 Total Cost 4,312,000 Gross Profit 2,688,000 b Annual Gross Profit Using Transfer Price @1.54 for 1600000 units and TP of 2.5 for 1200000 units Details Amt $/Unit Total Amt $ Units sold lb intercompany 1.54 1,600,000 Units sold to outside customers 2.50 1,200,000 Sales Revenue intercompany 1.54 2,464,000 Sales Revenue third party 2.50 3,000,000 Total Sales revenue 5,464,000 Direct Materials 0.80 2,240,000 Direct Labor 0.42 1,176,000 Variable Overhead 0.12 336,000 Fixed Overhead 0.20 560,000 Total Cost 4,312,000 Gross Profit 1,152,000