The Goode Perk Company produces several models of coffee makers. There is little difference in the production time required for the various model coffee machines. The plant is designed to produce 160 coffee machines per eight-hour shift, and there are two shifts per working day.
However, the plant does not operate for the full eight hours: the employees take two 12-minute breaks in each shift, one in the first four hours and one in the second four hours; two hours per week are devoted to cleaning the factory and performing maintenance on the machines; one four-hour period every four weeks is devoted to the meeting of the quality circle. The plant usually produces about 3,500 coffee machines per four-week period. You may ignore holidays in solving this problem. The selling price of the product is $160.00 per machine. The variable costs per unit are broken down as follows:
- Labor $60.25
- Raw material $25.70
- Purchased component $21.50
- Variable overhead $27.50
The fixed costs total $503,000 per year.
Required:
Using the above information what are the total variable costs per unit?
