The management of Woznick Corporation has been concerned for some time with the financial performance of its product V86O and has considered discontinuing it on several occasions. Data from the company's accounting systemfor this product for last year appear below: Sales $ 150,000
Variable expenses $ 72,000
Fixed manufacturing expenses $ 50,000
Fixed selling and administrative expenses $ 33,000
In the company's accounting system all fixed expenses of the company are fully allocated to products. Further investigation has revealed that $30,000 of the fixed manufacturing expenses and $13,000 of the fixed selling and administrative expenses are avoidable if product V86O is discontinued.
What would be the financial advantage (disadvantage) from dropping product V86O?
a. ($35,000)
b. ($5,000)
c. $35,000
d. $5,000

a. ($35,000)

Explanation:

The computation of the financial advantage or disadvantage of dropping product V860 is shown below:

= Sales - Variable cost - Avoidable fixed manufacturing - Avoidable fixed selling

= $150,000 - $72,000 - $30,000 - $13,000

= $35,000

This $35,000 would be a financial disadvantage and the fixed cost should not be considered as it is not held for decision making purpose

Hence, the correct option is a

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.