Accounting Test Bank 24>AICPA BB: Critical Thinking AICPA FN: Measurement Blooms: Apply Difficulty: 2 Medium

109 . At what purchase price for the wheels would Talbot be indifferent between making or buying the wheels? A. $1.70 per wheel B. $1.60 per wheel C. $1.55 per wheel D. $1.15 per wheel The company would be indifferent at a price of $1.60 per wheel ($160,000 ÷ 100,000 wheels). AACSB: Analytic AICPA BB: Critical Thinking AICPA FN: Measurement Blooms: Apply Difficulty: 3 Hard Learning Objective: 12-03 Prepare a make or buy analysis. Rama Corporation is presently making part J56 that is used in one of its products. A total of 4,000 units of this part are produced and used every year. The company's Accounting Department reports the following costs of producing the part at this level of activity: An outside supplier has offered to produce and sell the part to the company for $30.80 each. If this offer is accepted, the supervisor's salary and all of the variable costs, including direct labor, can be avoided. The special equipment used to make the part was purchased many years ago and has no salvage value or other use. The allocated general overhead represents fixed costs of the entire compan