Imperial Jewelers manufactures and sells a gold bracelet for $402.00. The company's accounting system says that the unit product cost for this bracelet is $271.00 as shown below: The members of a wedding party have approached Imperial Jewelers about buying 25 of these gold bracelets for the discounted price of $362.00 each. The members of the wedding party would like special filgree 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 $465 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 party's order using its existing manufacturing capacity. Required: 1. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the special order from the wedding party? 2. Should the company accept the special order? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the special order from the wedding party? Portsmouth Company makes upholstered furniture. Its only vartable cost is direct materlals. The demand for the company's products far exceeds its manufacturing capacity. The bottleneck (or constraint) in the production process is upholstery labor-hours. Information concerning three of Portsmouth's products appears below. Required: 1. Portsmouth is considering paying its upholstery laborers hourly compensation, In addition to their usual salaries, to work overtime: Assuming that this extra time would be used to produce solas, up to how much of an overtime rate per hour should the company be willing to pay to keep the upholstery shop open after normal working hours? 2. A small nearby upholsteeing company has offered to upholster furniture for Portsmouth at a price of $41 per hour. The management of Portsmouth is confident that this upholstering company's work is high quality and their craftsmen can work as quickly as Portsmouth's own craftsmen on the simpler upholstering jobs such as the Love Seat. How much additional contribution margin per hour can Portsmouth earn if it hires the nearby upholstering company to make Love Seats? 3. Should Portsmouth hire the nearby upholstering company? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Portsmouth is considering paying its upbolstery laborers hourly compensation, In addition to their usual salaries, to work overtime. Assuming that this extra time would be used to produce sofas, up to how much of an overtime rato per hour should the company be willing to pay to keep the upholstery shop open after normal working hours? Portsmouth Company makes upholstered furniture. Its only varlable cost is direct materials. The demand for the company's products far exceeds its manufacturing capacity. The bottleneck (or constraint) in the production process is upholstery labor hours. Informatlon conceming three of Portsmouth's products appears below: Required: 1. Portsmouth is considering paying its upholstery laborers hourly compensation, in addition to thelr usual salaries, to work overtime. Assuming that this extra time would be used to produce sofas, up to how much of an overtime rate per hour should the company be willing to pay to keep the upholstery shop open after normal working hours? 2. A small nearby uphoistering company has offered to upholster furniture for Portsmouth at a price of $41 per hour. The management of Portsmouth is confident that this uphoistering company's work is high quality and their craftsmen can work as quickly as Portsmouth's own craftsmen on the simpler upholstering jobs such as the Love Seat. How much additional contribution margin per hour can Portsmouth earn if it hires the nearby upholstering company to make Love Seats? 3. Should Portsmouth hire the nearby upholstering company? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. A small nearby upholstering company has offered to upholster furnture for Portsmouth at a grice of \$41 per hour. The management of portsmouth is confident that this upholstering company's work is high quality and their caftsmen can work as quickly as Portsmouth's own craftsmen on the simpler upholstering Jobs such as the Love Seat. How much additional contribution margin per hour can Dortsmouth earn if it hires the nearby upholstering company to make tove Seats? Wexpro, Incorporated, produces several products from processing 1 ton of clypton, a rare mineral. Material and processing costs total $62,000 per ton, one-fourth of which is allocated to product X15. Eight thousand three hundred units of product X15 are produced from each ton of clypton. The units can either be sold at the split-off point for $16 each, or processed further at a total cost of $9,800 and then sold for $19 each Required: 1. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of further processing product X15? 2. Should product X 15 be processed further or sold at the split-off point