Burien allocates building depreciation | Accounting homework help

2.) Burien allocates building depreciation, maintenance, and utilities on the basis of square footage. Office expenses are allocated on the basis of sales.

Management is considering an expansion to a three-department operation. The proposed Department C would generate $120,000 in additional sales and have a 17.5% contribution to overhead. The company owns its building. Opening Department C would redistribute the square footage to each department as follows: A, 19,040; B, 21,760 sq. ft.; C, 13,600. Increases in indirect expenses would include: maintenance, $500; utilities, $3,800; and office expenses, $1,200.

Complete the following departmental income statements, showing projected results of operations for the three sales departments. (Round amounts to the nearest whole dollar.) Also show your calculations for the allocation of indirect expenses in the tables below the Departmental Income Statement.

3.) Hess Co. manufactures a product that sells for $12 per unit. Total fixed costs are $96,000 and variable costs are $7 per unit. Hess can buy a newer production machine that will increase total fixed costs by $22,800 but variable costs will be decreased by $0.40 per unit. 

REQUIRED: Calculate the current break-even point in units and the break-even point in units if the new production machine is purchased. Show your answers in the spaces provided and use the space below the answer blocks to show your calculations.

4.) Slim Corp. requires a minimum $8,000 cash balance. If necessary, loans are taken to meet this requirement at a cost of 1% interest per month (paid monthly on the loan balance at the end of the previous month). Loans are repaid at month’s end from any excess cash. The cash balance on July 1 is $8,400. Cash receipts other than for loans received for July, August, September are forecasted as $24,000, $32,000, and $40,000, respectively. Payments other than for loan or interest payments for the same period are planned at $28,000, $30,000, and $32,000, respectively. At July 1, there are no outstanding loans.

REQUIRED: Prepare a cash budget for July, August, and September. Use the template below for your answer.

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