Polaski Company manufactures and sells a single product called a Ret. Operating at capacity, the company can produce and sell 44,000 Rets per year. Costs associated with this level of production and sales are given below. Direct materiais Director Variable manufacturing overhead Vied santaetering overhead Variable selling expense Tied selling expense Total cost Unit $20 10 3 Total $ 880,000 440,000 132.000 300.000 80,000 264.000 $ 2.112.000 2 5 40 The Rets normally sell for $53 each. Fixed manufacturing overhead is $308,000 per year within the range of 36,000 through 44.000 Rets per year Required: 1. Assume that due to a recession, Polask Company expects to sell only 36.000 Rets through regular channels next year. A large retail chain has offered to purchase 8.000 Rets if Polaski 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, Polasid Company would have to purchase a special machine to engrave the retail chain's name on the 8,000 units. This machine would cost $16,000 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 Polski Company expects to sell only 36,000 Rets through regular channels next year The US Army would like to make a one-time-only purchase of 8.000 Rets. The Army would pay a fixed fee of $180 per Ret, and it would reimburse Polask Company for all costs of production variable and fed) associated with the units. 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 44,000 Rets through regular channels next year. Thus, accepting the US Army's order would require giving up regular sales of 8,000 Rets. Given this new information what is the financial advantage disadvantages of accepting the US Army's special order? 12