The performance report for the production manager of a company for the last month included the following.
1,000 direct labor hours were worked at a basic rate of pay of $10 per hour. 200 of these hours were worked during overtime for which a 30% overtime premium was paid. 80 of these overtime hours were to fulfill a customer order that had originally been planned for manufacture next month. The sales manager had agreed to bring forward the delivery of this order at the request of the customer. The remaining overtime hours were due to unexpected inefficiency of the workforce; this has been traced to poor supervision by a junior manager.
Material costs included the following:
What is the total value of the above costs that was controllable by the production manager?
A large supermarket is applying direct product profitability analysis to establish the profit earned by each of the products it sells.
Data for product P are as follows.
The shelf is stacked each time that all units are sold and there are no units of product P left unsold at the end of each day.
What is the direct product profit per unit of product P?
Give your answer to the nearest $0.01.
Product WB currently sells for $13 per unit. Annual demand at that price is 20,000 units. If the price increases to $15, the annual demand falls by 500 units.
What is the formula for the demand curve?