Polaski Company manufactures and sells a single product called a Ret. Operating at capacity, the company can produce and sell 42,000 Rets per year. Costs associated with this level of production and sales are given below: Unit Direct materials Total $ 15 Direct labor $ 630,000 8 336,000 Variable manufacturing overhead 3 126,000 Fixed manufacturing overhead 9 378,000 Variable selling expense 2 84,000 Fixed selling expense 6 252,000 Total cost $ 43 $ 1,806,000 The Rets normally sell for $48 each. Fixed manufacturing overhead is $378,000 per year within the range of 32,000 through 42,000 Rets per year. Required: 1. Assume that due to a recession, Polaski Company expects to sell only 32,000 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? (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.) 2. Refer to the original data. Assume again that polaski Company expects to sell only 32,000 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 $1,80 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 US Army's special order? 3. Assume the same situation as described in (2) above, except that the company expects to sell 42,000 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 Total cost $ 43 $1,806,000 The Rets normally sell for $48 each. Fixed manufacturing overhead is $378,000 per year within the range of 32,000 through 42,000 Rets per year. Required: 1. Assume that due to a recession, Poloski Company expects to sell only 32,000 Rets through regular channels next year. A large retail chain has offered to purchase 10,000 Rets if Poloski is willing to accept a 16% discount of the regular price. There would be no sales commissions on this order; thus, variable selling expenses would be slashed by 75%. However, Poloski 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. Polski 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? (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.) 2. Refer to the original data. Assume again that Polaski Company expects to sell only 32,000 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 relmburse Poloski 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 $1.80 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 42,000 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. Financial advantage 2. Financial advantage 3. Financial (disadvantage)
