New product called shady blue in the market

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Blue Shade wants to launch a new product called Shady Blue in the market. The sales manager needs to present the opportunity to management. He approaches you to assist him in calculating the required information.

He provides you with the following information.

Purchase price of the product R125,50/unit

Packaging cost R10,00/unit

Labour needed to wrap the product before it can be delivered. (The product must be wrapped and cannot be sold without the wrapping) Wrap 2 products per hour. The employees will be paid R160 per day. The company work a 8 hour day. The employees will be utilised somewhere else for there are no products to be wrapped

A supervisor needs to be appointed at a monthly cost of R15,000.

Delivery cost to the wholesalers will be charged at R300 per 10 units delivered.

Additional space will be rented at R5,000 per month.

Additional general administration expenses will amount to R2,500 per month.

Required:

Assist the sales manager in calculating the following:

1. The estimated sales price per unit. The company’s policy is a mark-up of 65% on variable cost.

2. The contribution per unit.

3. Break-even units to be sold to cover the additional costs.

4. The number of units to be sold to achieve a profit before tax of 20% of the sales value.

5. The number of units to be sold to achieve a profit after tax of 15% of the sales value. The tax rate is 28%.

Reference no: EM132065216

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