During year 1, Rooney Manufacturing Company incurred $8,000,000 of research and development (R&D) costs to create a long-life battery to use in computers. In accordance with FASB standards, the entire R&D cost was recognized as an expense in year 1. Manufacturing costs (direct materials, direct labor, and overhead) are expected to be $45 per unit. Packaging, shipping, and sales commissions are expected to be $8 per unit. Rooney expects to sell 2,000,000 batteries before new research renders the battery design technologically obsolete. During year 1, Rooney made 440,000 batteries and sold 400,000 of them. Required Identify the upstream and downstream costs. Determine the year 1 amount of cost of goods sold and the ending inventory balance that would appear on the financial statements that are prepared in accordance with GAAP. Determine the sales price assuming that Rooney desires to earn a profit margin that is equal to 25 percent of the total cost of developing, making, and distributing the batteries. Prepare a GAAP-based income statement for year 1. Use the sales price developed in Requirement c.

P8-4b dropping unfavorable division based on the following analysis of last year's operations of groves, inc., a financial vice president of the company believes that the firm's total net income could be increased by $160,000 if its design division were discontinued. (amounts are given in the thousands of dollars.) required provide answers for each of the following independent situations: a. assuming that total fixed costs and expenses would not be affected by discontinuing the design division, prepare an analysis showing why you agree or disagree with the vice president. b. assume that the discontinuance of the design division will enable the company to avoid 30% of the fixed portion of cost of services and 40% of the fixed operating expenses allocated to the design division. calculate the resulting effect on net income. c. assume that in addition to the cost avoidance in requirement (b), the capacity released by discontinuance of the design division can be used to provide 6,000 new services that would have a variable cost per service of $60 and would require additional fixed costs totaling $68,000. at what unit price must the new service be sold if groves is to increase its total net income by $180,000?