EasyFind, Inc. sells StraightShot golf balls for $22 per dozen, with a variable manufacturing cost of $14 per dozen. Eas
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2022 3:17 pm
company loses the margin of Straight Shot that would have been purchased. Using the previously calculated cannibalization rate, calculate Duffer's Delite per unit contribution margin including cannibalization as a variable cost. 0.00 dollars and cents PS1 1 2 3 4 5 SUBMIT ANSWER EXIT PRACTICE CALCULATED VARIABLES: canrate=0.324 (32.4%) ycontr $407,200 ucontr = $8.00
EasyFind, Inc. sells StraightShot golf balls for $22 per dozen, with a variable manufacturing cost of $14 per dozen. EasyFind is planning to introduce a lower priced ball, Duffer's Delite, that will sell for $12 per dozen with a variable manufacturing cost of $5 per dozen. The firm currently sells 50,900 StraightShot units per year and expects to sell 21,300 units of the new Duffer's Delight golf ball if it is introduced (1 unit = 12 golf balls packaged together). Management projects the fixed costs for launching Duffer's Delight golf balls to be $9,030 Another way to consider the financial impact of a product launch that may steal sales from an existing product is to include the loss due to cannibalization as a variable cost. That is, if a customer purchases Duffer's Delite ball instead of Straight Shot, the