Arizona Company Provided the Following Information Regarding Its Most Recent

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Essay

Arizona Company provided the following information regarding its most recent year of operations: $\begin{array}{|l|r|}\hline \text { Administrative salaries } & \$ 24,000 \\\hline \text { Direct labor } & 48,000 \\\hline \text { Direct raw material } & 80,000 \\\hline \text { Marketing and distribution costs } & 60,000 \\\hline \text { Overhead costs } & 36,000\\\hline \text { Product design and testing } & 30,000 \\\text { Research and development } & 40,000 \\\hline \text { Sales revenues } & 410,000 \\\hline \text { Sales salaries and commissions } & 54,000 \\\hline \text { Warranty costs } & 4,000\\\hline\\\hline \text { Number of units produced } & 20,000 \\\hline \text { Number of units sold } & 20,000\\\hline\end{array}$
Required:
Determine the following amounts:
(a) Total product costs
(b) Total upstream costs
(c) Total downstream costs
(d) Product cost per unit
(e) Total cost per unit, including product costs and upstream and downstream costs
(f) The selling price per unit that would be required if the company wishes to earn a profit margin equal to 25% of total cost
(g) Comment on the company's profitability at its current selling price

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values from the mean value.

Percentile Score

The percentage of people someone scores higher than on a scale or test; a score at the 90th percentile means someone scores higher than 90% of the people who took the scale.

Normal Distribution

A symmetrical bell-shaped distribution in which most of the data points cluster around the mean, with decreasing frequency toward the tails.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a given set of data, representing the most common outcome within that data set.