Mountain Rides manufactures snowboards. Its cost of making 23,600 bindings is as follows: (Click the icon to view the costs.) Suppose an outside supplier will sell bindings to Mountain Rides for $17 each. Mountain Rides will pay $3.00 per unit to transport the bindings to its manufacturing plant, where it will add its own logo at a cost of $0.70 per binding Read the requirements. Question Viewer Requirement 1. Mountain Rides' accountants predict that purchasing the bindings from the outside supplier will enable the company to avoid $1,800 of fixed overhead. Prepare an analysis to show whether the company should make or buy the bindings. (Enter a "0" for any zero balances. Round any per unit amounts to the nearest cent and your final answers to the nearest whole dollar. Use a minus sign or parentheses in the Difference column when the cost to make exceeds the cost to buy.) Incremental Analysis Make Buy (Outsource) Outsourcing Decision Bindings Bindings Difference Variable Costs Plus: Fixed Costs Total cost of 23,600 bindings Data Table Direct materials .... $ 24,000 Direct labor... 82,000 Variable manufacturing overhead ..... 48,000 Fixed manufacturing overhead 82,000 $ 236,000 Total manufacturing costs .... Cost per pair ($236,000 + 23,600) ..... $ 10.00 Requirements - X 1. Mountain Rides' accountants predict that purchasing the bindings from the outside supplier will enable the company to avoid $1,800 of fixed overhead. Prepare an analysis to show whether the company should make or buy the bindings. 2. The facilities freed by purchasing bindings from the outside supplier can be used to manufacture another product that will contribute $3,100 to profit. Total fixed costs will be the same as if Mountain Rides had produced the bindings. Show which alternative makes the best use of Mountain Rides' facilities: (a) make bindings, (b) buy bindings and leave facilities idle, or (c) buy bindings and make another product Print Done y number in the edit fields and then click Check Answer. Clear All Check Answe More Help