The Local Convenience Store Makes Personal Pan Pizzas

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Essay

The local convenience store makes personal pan pizzas. Currently, their process makes complete pizzas, fully cooked, for the customer. This process has a fixed cost of $20,000, and a variable cost of $1.75 per pizza. The owner is considering a different process that can make pizzas in two ways: completely cooked (as before), or partially cooked and then flash frozen, for the customer to finish at home. This alternate process has a fixed cost of $24,000, but a lower variable cost (because much less energy is used in baking) of $1.25 per pizza.
a. What is the crossover point between the existing process and the proposed process?
b. If the owner expects to sell 9,000 pizzas, should he get the new oven?

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Definitions:

Periodic Inventory System

An inventory system in which the inventory count and cost of goods sold are determined at set intervals, such as monthly or annually.

Purchase Returns and Allowances

Transactions where buyers return defective or unsatisfactory products to the seller, who may offer a refund or price reduction.

Freight-In

The cost associated with transporting goods to a warehouse or production facility, considered part of the inventory cost.

Merchandise Purchased

Expenses related to the acquisition of goods for resale in the ordinary course of business.