Use the Information Below to Answer the Following Question(s)

question 172

Multiple Choice

Use the information below to answer the following question(s) .Soft Cushion Company is highly decentralized.Each division is empowered to make its own sales decisions.The Assembly Division can purchase cushion stuffing from the Production Division or from external suppliers.The Production Division has been the major supplier of stuffing in recent years.The Assembly Division has announced that two external suppliers will be used to purchase the stuffing at $20 per kilogram for the next year.The Production Division recently increased its unit price to $40.The manager of the Production Division presented the following information; variable cost $32, fixed cost $8, to top management in order to attempt to force the Assembly Division to purchase the stuffing internally.The Assembly Division purchases 20,000 kg per month.
-The general guideline for determining the minimum transfer price is

• A)cover all employee costs incurred in production.
• B)fixed cost plus opportunity costs per unit to the vendor division.
• C)variable cost plus opportunity costs per unit to the vendor division.
• D)fixed cost plus incremental costs per unit up to the point of transfer.
• E)additional incremental costs per unit up to the point of transfer, plus opportunity costs per unit to the vendor division.

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Definitions:

Managing Quality

Involves overseeing operations and processes to ensure that products or services are meeting predefined standards and customer expectations.

Productivity

A measure of the efficiency of production, often quantified as the ratio of outputs to inputs in a production process.

Operations Manager

A role responsible for overseeing, designing, and controlling the process of production and redesigning business operations in the production of goods and services.

OM Function

Operations management function, which involves the responsibility for planning, organizing, and supervising the processes that produce a company's goods or services.