Imperial Jewelers manufactures and sells a gold bracelet for $404.00. The company's accounting system says that the unit product cost for this bracelet is $259.00 as shown below. Direct materials Direct labor Manufacturing overhead Unit product cost $146 82 31 $ 259 The members of a wedding party have approached Imperial Jewelers about buying 21 of these gold bracelets for the discounted price of $364.00 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 $452 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. 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. Required 1 Required 2 What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the special order from the wedding party? Required 1 Required 2 > Polaski Company manufactures and sells a single product called a Ret. Operating at capacity, the company can produce and sell 38,000 Rets per year. Costs associated with this level of production and sales are given below. Direct materials Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead Fixed manufacturing overhead Variable selling expense Fixed selling expense Total cost Unit Total $ 20 $760,000 8 304,000 3 114,000 9 342,000 2 76,000 6 $ 48 228,000 $ 1,824,000 The Rets normally sell for $53 each. Fixed manufacturing overhead is $342,000 per year within the range of 28,000 through 38,000 Rets per year. Required: 1. Assume that due to a recession, Polaski Company expects to sell only 28,000 Rets through regular channels next year. A large retail chain has offered to purchase 10,000 Rets if Polaski is willing to accept a 16% discount off the regular price. There would be no sales commissions on this order; thus, variable selling expenses would be slashed by 75%. However, Polaski Company would have to purchase a special machine to engrave the retail chain's name on the 10,000 units. This machine would cost $20,000. Polaski Company has no assurance that the retail chain will purchase additional units in the future. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the special order? Note: Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places. 2. Refer to the original data. Assume again that Polaski Company expects to sell only 28,000 Rets through regular channels next year. The U.S. Army would like to make a one-time-only purchase of 10,000 Rets. The Army would reimburse Polaski for all of the variable and fixed production costs assigned to the units by the company's absorption costing system, plus it would pay an additional fee of $1.60 per unit. Because the army would pick up the Rets with its own trucks, there would be no variable selling expenses 1. Assume that due to a recession, Polaski Company expects to sell only 28,000 Rets through regular channels next year. A large retail chain has offered to purchase 10,000 Rets if Polaski is willing to accept a 16% discount off the regular price. There would be no sales commissions on this order; thus, variable selling expenses would be slashed by 75%. However, Polaski Company would have to purchase a special machine to engrave the retail chain's name on the 10,000 units. This machine would cost $20,000. Polaski Company has no assurance that the retail chain will purchase additional units in the future. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the special order? Note: Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places. 2. Refer to the original data. Assume again that Polaski Company expects to sell only 28,000 Rets through regular channels next year. The U.S. Army would like to make a one-time-only purchase of 10,000 Rets. The Army would reimburse Polaski for all of the variable and fixed production costs assigned to the units by the company's absorption costing system, plus it would pay an additional fee of $1.60 per unit. Because the army would pick up the Rets with its own trucks, there would be no variable selling expenses associated with this order. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the U.S. Army's special order? 3. Assume the same situation as described in (2) above, except that the company expects to sell 38,000 Rets through regular channels next year. Thus, accepting the U.S. Army's order would require giving up regular sales of 10,000 Rets. Given this new information, what is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the U.S. Army's special order? 1. 2. 3. 123