Widget Inc

question 8

Multiple Choice

Widget Inc. manufactures widgets. The company has the capacity to produce 100,000 widgets per year, but it currently produces and sells 75,000 widgets per year. The following information relates to current production: If a special sales order is accepted for 8100 widgets at a price of $39 per unit, and fixed costs increase by $13,000, how would operating income be affected? (NOTE: Assume regular sales are not affected by the special order.)

• A)Decrease by $68,000
• B)Increase by $108,500
• C)Increase by $94,000
• D)Increase by $68,000

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Definitions:

Equipment Account

An account on a company's balance sheet that reports the value of the company's ownership in equipment, adjusted for depreciation.

Non-Controlling Interest

A shareholder or equity interest in a corporation that is not large or significant enough to confer control over the business.

Entity Method

An accounting approach used in preparing consolidated financial statements where investments in subsidiaries are recorded at cost and adjusted for the parent company's share of the subsidiaries' post-acquisition profits or losses.

Shareholders' Equity

The residual interest in the assets of a corporation after deducting its liabilities, representing the owners' claim on the business assets.