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Multiple Choice QuestionA company currently makes a component used in production. The per unit costs incurred to make the component include: Direct materials: $5; Direct labor: $2; Overhead: $4; Total cost: $11. Twenty-five percent of the overhead costs are considered incremental. The company can purchase the component from another source for $10. The company should do which of the following?Multiple choice question.The company can be indifferent because incremental costs are $10 and the purchase price is $10.The company should buy the components to save $2 per unit.The company should make the components because incremental costs are $2 less than the purchase price.The company should buy the components to save $1 per unit.

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Multiple Choice QuestionA company currently makes a component used in production. The per unit costs incurred to make the component include: Direct materials: 5;Directlabor:5; Direct labor: 2; Overhead: 4;Totalcost:4; Total cost: 11. Twenty-five percent of the overhead costs are considered incremental. The company can purchase the component from another source for 10.Thecompanyshoulddowhichofthefollowing?Multiplechoicequestion.Thecompanycanbeindifferentbecauseincrementalcostsare10. The company should do which of the following?Multiple choice question.The company can be indifferent because incremental costs are 10 and the purchase price is 10.Thecompanyshouldbuythecomponentstosave10.The company should buy the components to save 2 per unit.The company should make the components because incremental costs are 2lessthanthepurchaseprice.Thecompanyshouldbuythecomponentstosave2 less than the purchase price.The company should buy the components to save 1 per unit.

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The company should make the components because incremental costs are $2 less than the purchase price.

Here's why:

The total cost to make the component is $11. However, only 25% of the overhead costs are incremental. This means that these costs would be eliminated if the component were not produced. So, the incremental cost to produce the component is:

Direct materials: 5Directlabor:5 Direct labor: 2 25% of Overhead: 40.25=4 * 0.25 = 1

Total incremental cost = 5+5 + 2 + 1=1 = 8

Since the purchase price of the component is 10,whichis10, which is 2 more than the incremental cost of producing the component, it would be cheaper for the company to make the component rather than buying it.

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