Answer the Following Questions Using the Information Below

question 144

Multiple Choice

Answer the following questions using the information below:
LaCrosse Products has a budget of $900,000 in 2015 for prevention costs. If it decides to automate a portion of its prevention activities, it will save $80,000 in variable costs. The new method will require $40,000 in training costs and $100,000 in annual equipment costs. Management is willing to adjust the budget for an amount up to the cost of the new equipment. The budgeted production level is 150,000 units.
Appraisal costs for the year are budgeted at $600,000. The new prevention procedures will save appraisal costs of $50,000. Internal failure costs average $15 per failed unit of finished goods. The internal failure rate is expected to be 3% of all completed items. The proposed changes will cut the internal failure rate by one-third. Internal failure units are destroyed. External failure costs average $54 per failed unit. The company's average external failures average 3% of units sold. The new proposal will reduce this rate by 50%. Assume all units produced are sold and there are no ending inventories.
-How much will internal failure costs change if the internal product failures are reduced by 1/3 with the new procedures?

• A) $22,500 decrease
• B) $67,500 decrease
• C) $500,000 decrease
• D) $750,000 decrease

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Definitions:

Inventories

Assets held for sale, or in the process of being produced for sale, or to be used in the production process.

Overapplied Manufacturing Overhead

This occurs when the allocated manufacturing overhead cost is more than the actual manufacturing overhead costs incurred.

Underapplied Manufacturing Overhead

This occurs when the allocated manufacturing overhead costs are less than the actual overhead costs incurred, leading to a cost variance.

Cost of Goods Sold

The direct costs attributable to the production of the goods sold by a company, including both material and labor costs.