Alpine Luggage has a capacity to produce 360,000 suitcases per year. The company is currently producing and selling 280,000 units per year at a selling price of $402 per case The cost of producing and selling one case follows Variable manufacturing costs Fised manufacturing costs Variable selling and administrative costs Fined seling and administrative costs 5 163 42 81 21 5 307 Total costs The company has received a special order for 20,000 suitcases at a price of $249 per case. It will not have to pay any sales commission on the special order, so the variable selling and administrative costs would be only $52 per suitcase. The special order would have no effect on total fixed costs. The company has rejected the offer based on the following computations Seling price per case Variable manufacturing costs 5 249 163 42 52 21 5 (29 Variable selling and administrative costs Fned seling and administrative costs Net profit (loss) per case Required a. What is the impact on profit for the year if Alpine accepts the special order? (Enter your answers in thousands of dollars. Select option "higher" or "lower", keeping Status Quo as the base. Select "none" if there is no effect.) All costs in $000) Status Que Alternative Sales revenue Variable costs: Selling and administrative Contribution margin Fixed costs Operating profi b. Do you agree with the decision to reject the special order? Yes No