A Company Produces Product a and Product B

question 3

Multiple Choice

A company produces product A and product B.Each product must go through two processes.Each A produced requires two hours in process 1 and five hours in process 2.Each B produced requires six hours in process 1 and three hours in process 2.There are 80 hours of capacity available each week in each process.Each A produced generates $6.00 in profit for the company.Each B produced generates $9.00 in profit for the company.If the company produces 6 units of A and 9 units of B the amount of slack (in hours) for process 1 is

• A)0 hours.
• B)14 hours.
• C)66 hours.
• D)80 hours.

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Definitions:

Equity Method

An accounting technique used by companies to record their investments in other companies, where the investment gives the investor significant influence over the investee, but not control or full ownership.

Additional Paid-in Capital

The excess amount over the par value that shareholders pay when shares are issued, recorded in the equity section of the balance sheet.

Consolidated Earnings Per Share

A measure of a company's profitability that takes into account earnings from all of the entities it controls, presented on a per-share basis.