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McNulty, Inc., produces desks and chairs. A new CFO has just been hired and announces a new policy that if a product cannot earn a margin of at least 20 percent, it will be dropped. The margin is computed as product gross profit divided by reported product cost. Manufacturing overhead for year 1 totaled $800,000. Overhead is allocated to products based on direct labor cost. Data for year 1 show the following. Sales revenue Direct materials Direct labor Chairs $1,150,000 584,000 160,000 Desks $2,105,000 800,000 340,000 Required: a-1. Based on the CFO's new policy, calculate the profit margin for both chairs and desks. a-2. Which of the two products should be dropped? b. Regardless of your answer in requirement (a), the CFO decides at the beginning of year 2 to drop the chair product. The company cost analyst estimates that overhead without the chair line will be $650,000. The revenue and costs for desks are expected to be the same as last year. What is the estimated margin for desks in year 2

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