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Cane Company manufactures two products called Alpha and Beta that sell for $170 and $130, respectively. Each product uses only one type of raw material that costs $6 per pound. The company has the capacity to annually produce 116,000 units of each product. Its average cost per unit for each product at this level of activity are given below:

Alpha

Beta

Direct materials

$ 30

$ 18

Direct labor

30

25

Variable manufacturing overhead

20

15

Traceable fixed manufacturing overhead

26

28

Variable selling expenses

22

18

Common fixed expenses

25

20

Total cost per unit

$ 153

$ 124

The company considers its traceable fixed manufacturing overhead to be avoidable, whereas its common fixed expenses are unavoidable and have been allocated to products based on sales dollars.

What is the total amount of traceable fixed manufacturing overhead for each of the two products? Alpha/Beta

What is the companys total amount of common fixed expenses?

Assume that Cane expects to produce and sell 90,000 Alphas during the current year. One of Cane's sales representatives has found a new customer who is willing to buy 20,000 additional Alphas for a price of $120 per unit. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the new customer's order?

Assume that Cane expects to produce and sell 100,000 Betas during the current year. One of Canes sales representatives has found a new customer who is willing to buy 3,000 additional Betas for a price of $49 per unit. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the new customer's order?

Assume that Cane expects to produce and sell 105,000 Alphas during the current year. One of Cane's sales representatives has found a new customer who is willing to buy 20,000 additional Alphas for a price of $120 per unit; however pursuing this opportunity will decrease Alpha sales to regular customers by 9,000 units.

a. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the new customers order?

b. Based on your calculations above should the special order be accepted?

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