Rosemont Tennis is planning for the coming year. Investors would like to earn a $12\%$ return on the company's $$25$ million of assets. The company primarily incurs fixed costs to maintain the tennis courts. Fixed costs are projected to be $$12,500,000$ for the year. About $500,000$ court time hours are expected to be played each year. Variable costs are about $$5$ per hour of court time.

When deciding whether to accept a special order, which of the following is irrelevant?$*$

$1$ point

Fixed costs that will not be affected by the order

Available excess capacity

The variable costs associated with the special order

The effect of the order on regular sales

A manager should always reject a special order if$*$

$1$ point

the special order price is less than the regular sales price.

there is available excess capacity.

the special order price is less than the variable costs of the order.

the special order will require variable nonmanufacturing expenses.