Bruno Company is a Rhode Island company that sells a branded product regionally to retail customers in New England. It normally sells its product for \($30\) per unit; however, it has received a one-time offer from a private-brand company on the West Coast to buy 1,000 units at \($19\) per unit. Even though the company has excess capacity to produce the units, the President of the company immediately rejected the offer; however, the chief accountant stated that it might be a profitable opportunity for the company, even though \($19\) is below its unit cost of \($21\), calculated as follows:

Also, the special order will save \($1\) per unit in packaging costs since the product will be bulk packaged instead of being individually packaged. Calculate the amount of profit or loss per unit if Bruno accepts the special order.

a. \($2\) loss

b. \($1\) loss

c. \($2\) profit

d. \($1\) profit

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Direct materials Direct labor... Variable overhead.. Depreciation and other fixed overhead Total unit cost... $ 9.00 5:00 4.00 3.00 $21.00