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SUMMARY OF THE BUSINESS POLICY GAME COSTS — Year 3, Quarter 1

(Costs change over time because of inflation and changes made by management.)

Marketing Expenses

Salespeople:

Salaries and commissions:

$3,000 or Dn, Rp or Ps 8971 per quarter + 20 cents or 0.60 Lc per unit


Training:

$10,000 or 36,000 in local currency per trainee


Moving expense:

$5,000 or 30,000 in local currency per salesperson transferred


Severance expense:

$5,000 or 30,000  in local currency per salesperson fired

 

Inventory storage:  In-plant warehouse:  10 cents or Dn, Rp, or Ps 0.60 per unit up to 300,000 units

Public warehouse:  30 cents or Dn, Rp or Ps 1.80 per unit

 

Transportation Expense:

Cost per unit in dollars

Marketing Research

 

Shipments from:

To:

convert to Lc at current rates

Competitive Advertising      

$40,000

Sales office or plant

Customer in same area

$0.10

Sales Force Comparison    

$20,000

Plant (Merica)

Sales office in other Merica area

$0.60

Consumer Preference I      

$60,000

Plant (Merica)

Foreign sales office

$0.90

Consumer Preference II    

$80,000

Plant (Foreign)

Merica sales office

$0.90

Sales Force Compensation  

$40,000

 

General Selling Expense:  Each Merica area:  $37,500 + $4,000 x number of salespeople + $0.20 x number of units sold

N/P/S:  Lc 225,000 + Lc 24,000 x number of salespeople + Lc 1.20 x number of units sold

Production Costs

Labor costs/line for Model 1, Quality 2, Features 2 (other models as reported):

Standard costs/unit

Straight time:

$288 or Dn, Rp or Ps 890 per hour for Model 1

Labor

$2.88

Lc  8.90  

Second shift:

110% of straight time

Materials

 1.23

5.72  

Overtime:

150% of straight time (200% in N/P/S)

Maintenance

 0.25

1.50  

 

 

Total (Qual 2/Feat 2)

$4.36

Lc 16.12  

Maintenance:

$25 or Dn, Rp or Ps 150 per hour per line

(Qual 3 or Feat 3)  + 10%

 

 

 

 

(Qual 1 or Feat 1)  - 10%

 

 

Layoff standby cost:

$52,000 or Dn, Rp or Ps 312,000 per quarter per line

Deactivation cost:

$100,000 or Dn, Rp or Ps 600,000 per line

Reactivation cost:

$50,000 or Dn, Rp or Ps 300,000 per line

Construction Costs:

New 2nd Shift:

$100,000 per line worker training (home area only)

line:

$500,000 or Lc 3,000,000 per line + Worker training:  $100,000 or Lc 600,000 per line

New addition to plant:

$900,000 or Dn, Rp or Ps 5,400,000 per 2-line addition

New plant construction:

2 lines capacity        $1,200,000 or Dn, Rp or Ps 7,200,000

 

4 lines capacity        $1,900,000 or Dn, Rp or Ps 11,400,000

 

6 lines capacity:        $2,600,000 or Dn, Rp or Ps 15,600,000

 

8 lines capacity:        $3,300,000 or Dn, Rp or Ps 19,800,000

 

10 lines capacity        $4,000,000 or Dn, Rp, or Ps 24,000,000

Finance Expenses

Bank loan:  Interest at the short-term interest rate during the quarter the loan is issued

Bonds:  Existing bonds, at 10% annual interest, new bonds at long term interest rate in quarter of issue

Interest paid quarterly.  Bonds\ are callable at a 5 percent call premium

Common stock:  Issue price determined by formula in text

Income tax:  39% of net income; paid quarterly

Value Added Tax in N/P/S:  10% of net sales to customers, paid quarterly

Other Expenses

Executives' salaries:  $50,000 or Lc 300,000 per manufacturing plant, $25,000 or Lc 150,000 per sales office, each quarter

Plant depreciation:  $26,000 per quarter (existing plant)

Straight-line basis over 31.5 years, no salvage value (0.7937% per quarter)

Equipment depreciation:  $107,000 in Year 2, Quarter 4 (existing equipment)

Straight-line basis over 7 years, no salvage value (3.5714% per quarter)