1. ABC Limited has provided following information related to budgeted and actual sales for March 2019:
| Products | Sales Quantity Units |
Selling Price Per Unit (₹) |
| Budgeted Sales | ||
| A | 3,600 | 15 |
| B | 2,400 | 20 |
| C | 6,000 | 30 |
| Acutal Sales | ||
| A | 2,620 | 18 |
| B | 2,620 | 20 |
| C | 7,920 | 28 |
Calculate: Total sales variance, Sales price variance, Sales quantity variance, Sales mix
variance and Verify the answer.
2. A Company is considering replacing one of existing machine with either a state of the art
“Automatic Machine” which will reduce the labor cost by 80% or with a standard machine.
The automatic machine will cost ₹ 3,50,000 with an estimated life of 7 years, whereas the
standard machine will cost ₹ 2,00,000 with an estimated life of 10 year. Both machine have
no residual value. Assume tax rate to be 40%.
The annual sales and costs are estimated as below:
| Automatic Machine (₹) | Standard Machine (₹) | |
| Sales | 250,000 | 250,000 |
| Costs: | ||
| Materials | 50,000 | 50,000 |
| Labour | 20,000 | 100,000 |
| Variable Overheads | 25,000 | 15,000 |
Calculate the payback period and advice the management.
3. You have been hired as a consultant by an auto parts manufacturing company. The company
is currently dealing with an issue with production of defective components costing them loss
of customers and sales. Company has identified that the main issue lies with a component supplier. The company has already gathered some information but unable to make a decision.
You have been provided with this information, the company can purchase the components in question from two suppliers, existing supplier A or new Supplier B. The price quoted by Supplier A is ₹18.00 per 100 numbers of the components and it is found that on an average 5% of the total receipt from this supplier is defective. The corresponding quotation from Supplier B is ₹15.00 per 100 numbers of the components but the defectives would go up to 10% for the total supply. If the defectives are not detected, they are utilized in production causing a damage of ₹18 per 100 components. The company intends to introduce a system of inspection for the components on receipt which would cost ₹5.00 per 100 components. The new inspection system will be able to detect only 90% of the defective components received. No payment will be made for defective components in inspection. Assume total requirements of components to be 25,000 numbers. (Hint: Use total cost for your analysis and recommendation.
You are asked to advice company management on:
a. Whether inspection at the point of receipt is justified?
b. Which of the two suppliers should be asked to supply?