Software for You Encounters Revenue-Allocation Decisions with Its Bundled Product

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Essay

Software For You encounters revenue-allocation decisions with its bundled product sales. Here, two or more units of the software are sold as a single package. Managers at Software For You are keenly interested in individual product-profitability figures. Information pertaining to its three bundled products and the stand-alone selling prices of its individual products is as follows:

Required:
a.Using the stand-alone revenue-allocation method, allocate the $380 packaged price of "All Three" to the three software products
1.with selling prices as the weights.
2.with individual product costs as the weights.
3.based on physical units.
b.Allocate the $380 packaged price of "All Three" to the three software products using the incremental revenue-allocation method. Assume Word Processing is the primary product, followed by Spreadsheet, and then Accounting Software.

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Definitions:

Just-In-Time Method

A production and inventory strategy that aims to reduce costs by receiving goods only as they are needed in the production process, minimizing inventory levels.

Inventory Levels

Inventory levels refer to the amount of goods or materials a company holds for the purpose of resale or production.

Total Manufacturing Costs

Total manufacturing costs encompass the sum of direct labor cost, direct materials cost, and manufacturing overhead costs incurred in the production of goods.

Direct Materials

Raw materials that are directly traceable to the production of specific goods.