King City Specialty Bikes (KCSB) produces high-end bicycles. The unit costs to manufacture and market the bicycles at last year's volume level of 2,200 bicycles per month are shown in the following table:

Unit manufacturing costs Variable $239

Fixed 139

Total unit manufacturing costs $378

Unit nonmanufacturing costs

Variable 59

Fixed 136

Total unit nonmanufacturing costs 195

Total unit costs $573

KCSB expects to produce and sell 2,450 bicycles per month in the coming year. The bicycles sell for $610 each.

KCSB receives a proposal from an outside contractor who, for $155 per bicycle, will assemble 750 bicycles per month and ship them directly to KCSB's customers as orders are received from KCSB's sales force. KCSB would provide the materials for each bicycle, but the outside contractor would assemble, box, and ship the bicycles. The variable manufacturing costs would be reduced by 45% for the 750 bicycles assembled by the outside contractor, and variable nonmanufacturing costs for the 750 bicycles would be cut by 55%.

KCSB's marketing manager thinks that it could sell 80 specialty racing bicycles per month for $6,000 each, and its production manager thinks that it could use the idle resources to produce each of these bicycles for variable manufacturing costs of $4,800 per bicycle and variable nonmanufacturing costs of $300 per bicycle. If KCSB accepts the proposal, it would be able to save 10% of fixed manufacturing costs; fixed nonmanufacturing costs would be unchanged.

REQUIRED [Note: Round unit cost computations to the nearest cent] What is the difference in KCSB's monthly costs between accepting the proposal and rejecting the proposal?

(Note: If the costs of accepting the proposal are less than the costs of rejecting it, enter the difference as a positive number; if the accept costs are more than the reject costs, enter the difference as a negative number.)