Financial & Managerial Accounting 17th Edition by Jan Williams ,Susan Haka,Mark Bettner,Joseph Carcello

تمرين 15

Home Run Corporation produces three products for baseball enthusiasts: bats, gloves, and balls. Information relating to each product line is as follows:
Home Run pays its direct labor workers an average of $8 per hour. At full capacity, 60,000 direct labor hours are available per year. The marketing department has just released the following sales estimates for the upcoming year: bats (60,000 units), gloves (20,000 units), and balls (100,000 units). Based on these figures, demand for the current year is expected to exceed the company's direct labor capacity.
Instructions
a. What products should Home Run produce to maximize its operating income?
b. The company's marketing manager believes that the production of the least profitable product is needed to "support" the demand for the most profitable products. How may this influence management's decision regarding the company's production schedule?