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Assumea company manufactures fhany products, one of which normally 5 ells for $48 per unit. The company's accounting 5y stem feports the following unit product cost for this product: The company estimates that $3 of its monufacturing overhead varies with respect to the number of units produced, The remainder of its overhead is fixed and unaffected by the volume of units produced within the folevant range. A customer has approached the company with an offer to buy 300 units of a customized version of the product mentioned above for $42. The company can fulfil this order using existing manufacturing capacity To accommodote the customer's desired product design, the company would incur additional direct materiais cost per unit of $3 it would also have to bey a special tool for $520 that has no other use or resale value after the speciaf order is completed, Assuming that accepting this order will not have any effect on sales to other customers, what is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the special order? toomas oscis \{ocels