Robolane Incorporated Manufactures and Distributes Small Robotic Toys

question 56

Essay

Robolane Incorporated manufactures and distributes small robotic toys. Because most of its orders are via telephone or fax, numerous orders have to be reworked. The average cost of the reworked orders is $12.45: $5 for labor, $5.15 for more materials, and $2.30 for overhead. This ratio of costs holds for the average original order. On a recent day, the shop reworked 80 orders out of 800. The original cost of the 80 orders totaled $2,000. The average cost of all orders is $26.245, including rework, with an average selling price of $35.
Required:
Prepare the necessary journal entry to record the rework for the day if the shop charges such activities to Robo Department Overhead Control. Prepare journal entries to record all relevant rework charges as well as to transfer the reworked items finished goods to Finished Goods Inventory.

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Definitions:

Marginal Cost

The outlay involved in the creation of an additional unit of a good or service.

Pareto Efficient

An economic state where resources are allocated in a way that it is impossible to make any one individual better off without making at least one individual worse off.

Efficiency

A measure of how well resources are used to achieve a goal, maximizing output from given inputs without waste.

Equity

The concept of fairness or justice, often discussed in the distribution of wealth, or the ownership interest in a firm.