JRL manufactures two products from different combinations of the same resources. Unit selling prices and unit cost details for each product are as follows:
Identify, using graphical linear programming, the weekly production schedule for products J and L that will maximize the profits of JRL during the next four weeks.
Information about a company's two products is as follows:
The products are currently sold in equal quantities.
Monthly fixed costs are $360,000.
What is the monthly breakeven sales revenue assuming a sales quantity mix of 50/50?
Give your answer to the nearest $.
A company has identified the trend in its sales figures through the regression equation Y = 65.9 + 3.86X, where Y is the sales revenue in thousands of dollars and X is the month number. The average seasonal variation for October is 87%
Calculate the forecast sales revenue for October of Year 6.
Give your answer to the nearest $000.
A manufacturing company sells 5 different products.
The company holds no inventories and has a high level of fixed cost.
Place against the statements below the comment "needed" or "not needed" to select ALL of the information required to calcuate the total number of units to break-even.
JKI is planning a golfing holiday for a group of wealthy lawyers.
The lawyers will fly to the local airport at their own expense. JKI will then pay for transport, accommodation and the use of the golf course (green fees).
JKI's costings are as follows, based on 28 participants:
JKI received 46 applications from potential participants.
What would the profit be if JKI accepted all of these bookings?
Give your answer to the nearest whole number.
Changing to a just-in-time, from a traditional, manufacturing environment can affect cost accounting systems.
Which of the following statements is correct?
A medium-sized manufacturing company, which operates in the electronics industry, has employed a firm of consultants to carry out a review of the company’s planning and control systems. The company presently uses a traditional incremental budgeting system and the inventory management system is based on economic order quantities (EOQ) and reorder levels. The company’s normal production patterns have changed significantly over the previous few years as a result of increasing demand for customized products. This has resulted in shorter production runs and difficulties with production and resource planning.
The consultants have recommended the implementation of activity based budgeting and a manufacturing resource planning system to improve planning and resource management.
How will a manufacturing resource planning system improve the planning of purchases and production for the company?
Select ALL the correct answers.
The budgeted production of product G for the period was 300 units. At the end of the period it was discovered that the standard hourly rate for labour should have been higher than that originally planned. Actual production was 450 units.
The labour rate planning variance would be calculated as:
A time series (TS) is made up of two main components i.e. trend (T) and the seasonal variation (SV).
Which TWO of the following could be used to find the seasonal component of a trend?
Which of the following would help to explain a favourable material price variance?
