1. Troy Engines, Ltd., manufactures a variety of engines for use in heavy equipment. The company has always produced all of the necessary parts for its engines, including all of the carburetors. An outside supplier has offered to sell one type of carburetor to Troy Engines, Ltd., for a cost of $34 per unit. To evaluate this offer, Troy Engines, Ltd., has gathered the following information relating to its own cost of producing the carburetor internally:

	Per Unit				21,000 Units Per Year
Direct materials	$	14		$	294,000
Direct labor		12			252,000
Variable manufacturing overhead		2			42,000
Fixed manufacturing overhead, traceable		9	*		189,000
Fixed manufacturing overhead, allocated		12			252,000
Total cost	$	49		$	1,029,000

*One-third supervisory salaries; two-thirds depreciation of special equipment (no resale value).

Required:

1. Assuming the company has no alternative use for the facilities that are now being used to produce the carburetors, what would be the financial advantage (disadvantage) of buying 21,000 carburetors from the outside supplier?

3. Suppose that if the carburetors were purchased, Troy Engines, Ltd., could use the freed capacity to launch a new product. The segment margin of the new product would be $210,000 per year. Given this new assumption, what would be the financial advantage (disadvantage) of buying 21,000 carburetors from the outside supplier?

2.

mperial Jewelers manufactures and sells a gold bracelet for $409.00. The companys accounting system says that the unit product cost for this bracelet is $268.00 as shown below:

Direct materials	$	148
Direct labor		85
Manufacturing overhead		35
Unit product cost	$	268

The members of a wedding party have approached Imperial Jewelers about buying 14 of these gold bracelets for the discounted price of $369.00 each. The members of the wedding party would like special filigree applied to the bracelets that would increase the direct materials cost per bracelet by $12. Imperial Jewelers would also have to buy a special tool for $459 to apply the filigree to the bracelets. The special tool would have no other use once the special order is completed.

To analyze this special order opportunity, Imperial Jewelers has determined that most of its manufacturing overhead is fixed and unaffected by variations in how much jewelry is produced in any given period. However, $13.00 of the overhead is variable with respect to the number of bracelets produced. The company also believes that accepting this order would have no effect on its ability to produce and sell jewelry to other customers. Furthermore, the company could fulfill the wedding partys order using its existing manufacturing capacity.

Required:

1. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the special order from the wedding party?