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Cane Company manufactures two products called Alpha and Beta that sell for $180 and $145, respectively. Each product uses only one type of raw material that costs $6 per pound. The company has the capacity to annually produce 118,000 units of each product. Its average cost per unit for each product at this level of activity are given below:

	Alpha				Beta
Direct materials		$	36			$	24
Direct labor			32				27
Variable manufacturing overhead			19				17
Traceable fixed manufacturing overhead			27				30
Variable selling expenses			24				20
Common fixed expenses			27				22
Total cost per unit		$	165			$	140

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.

5. Assume that Cane expects to produce and sell 107,000 Alphas during the current year. One of Cane's sales representatives has found a new customer who is willing to buy 22,000 additional Alphas for a price of $128 per unit; however pursuing this opportunity will decrease Alpha sales to regular customers by 11,000 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?