Maritime Ltd manufactures toy boats. The selling price of each finished product is £28. Each finished product requires £10 of materials and half an hour of labour (at £10 per hour). Variable overheads are £2 per labour hour and fixed overheads are £60,000 per month. Labour is in short supply and Maritime Ltd is currently running at full capacity. Maritime Ltd has been asked to produce a unique one-off product. They have calculated that to produce this product would need 100 labour hours, materials costing £500 and an additional component that could be purchased for £230 or be made internally for a material cost of £100 and labour time of 4 hours.
i) Determine if Maritime should make or buy the additional component.
ii) Determine if Maritime should start production of the new product, clearly stating the minimum price they should charge.
iii) Describe the relevant costs that Maritime should include in their
decision making