1. The given margins of the two products as indicated in the reports submitted by the accounting department for the drums and mountain bike frames should not be used in the decision of which product to make. This is due to the following reasons:
a. The product margins are lower than they should be, simply due to the fact of the presence of allocated common fixed costs that happen to be irrelevant in making this decision.
b. Moreover, when the fixed costs are taken out of the equation, the profitability of the two products is of more relevance as compared to the amount of the welding time that they use. A product with a very low margin may be desirable in a situation that it is more efficient in using the constrained resource, welding hours in this case.
2. Objective: To compute Contribution Margin per unit.
The fact that "All the company's employees direct and indirect are paid for full 40-hour workweeks" strongly indicates that the direct labor is an entirely fixed......
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