Cane Company manufactures two products called Alpha and Beta that sell for $175 and $135, respectively. Each product uses only one type of raw material that costs $5 per pound. The company has the capacity to annually produce 117,000 units of each product. Its average cost per unit for each product at this level of activity are given below:

	Alpha	Beta
Direct materials	$ 40	$ 15
Direct labor	30	30
Variable manufacturing overhead	18	16
Traceable fixed manufacturing overhead	26	29
Variable selling expenses	23	19
Common fixed expenses	26	21
Total cost per unit	$ 163	$ 130

ALL RELEVANT INFORMATION IS IN THE QUESTION ABOVE.

The company considers its traceable fixed manufacturing overhead to be avoidable, whereas its common fixed expenses are unavoidable and have been allocated to products based on sales dollars.

1. What is the total amount of traceable fixed manufacturing overhead for each of the two products?

2. What is the companys total amount of common fixed expenses?

3. Assume that Cane expects to produce and sell 91,000 Alphas during the current year. One of Cane's sales representatives has found a new customer who is willing to buy 21,000 additional Alphas for a price of $124 per unit. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the new customer's order?

4. Assume that Cane expects to produce and sell 101,000 Betas during the current year. One of Canes sales representatives has found a new customer who is willing to buy 3,000 additional Betas for a price of $59 per unit. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the new customer's order?

5. Assume that Cane expects to produce and sell 106,000 Alphas during the current year. One of Cane's sales representatives has found a new customer who is willing to buy 21,000 additional Alphas for a price of $124 per unit; however pursuing this opportunity will decrease Alpha sales to regular customers by 10,000 units. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the new customers order?

6. Assume that Cane normally produces and sells 101,000 Betas per year. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of discontinuing the Beta product line?