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Originally Posted by Richard
(Apologies to Natchez for unauthorized use of the YMTC theme.)
Team Blueabot is one of 10 FRC teams receiving support from Blueasponsor Inc.
Blueasponsor produces large quantities of several popular robot-making materials and allocates some of its inventory to the teams they sponsor
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LIGHTSTUFF is available in one pound bags. A single bag costs $300. If you buy 10 or more bags then each bag costs $200.
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At inspection, Team Blueabot presents a cost accounting sheet that looks like this:
LIGHTSTUFF 5 lb. x $200/bag = $1000
STRONGSTUFF 4 rods x $200/rod = $800
COOLSTUFF one 12"x12" sheet x $250/sheet = $250
Other stuff (chains and sprockets) $499
TOTAL cost of non-kit materials $2549
You are the robot inspector. Did Team Blueabot comply with the 2005 FRC cost accounting rules? Does Blueabot pass inspection?
Citing the appropriate rules, you make the call.
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Answers to questions:
Did Team Blueabot comply with the 2005 FRC cost accounting rules?: NO
Does Blueabot pass inspection? YES
The mitigating issue is that all the other STUFFs must have been produced from LIGHTSTUFF. Therefore, all the labor performed by Bluasponsor to get from LIGHTSTUFF to the others does not figure into the equation. Assuming that all of the STUFFs, added together and rounded up, weight less than fifteen pounds, then I would have Blueateam revise the bill of materials to show the cost to be (#-of-lbs. x $200.00/lb).
Blueasponsor surley must by the raw LIGHTSTUFF in bulk, so it's OK to use the prorated amount. The extra costs to Blueasponsor, natural gas etc., would be negligable compared to the labor. More yet, the internal costs and accounting procedures at Bluessponsor are
NONE of FIRST's BUSINESS! I would let them pass.