San Jose Company operates a Manufacturing Division and an Assembly Division. Both divisions are evaluated as profit centers. Assembly buys components from Manufacturing and assembles them for sale. Manufacturing sells many components to third parties in addition to Assembly. Selected data from the two operations follow.

	Manufacturing			Assembly
Capacity (units)		400,000			200,000
Sales pricea	$	400		$	1,300
Variable costsb	$	160		$	480
Fixed costs	$	40,000,000		$	24,000,000

^a For Manufacturing, this is the price to third parties.

^b For Assembly, this does not include the transfer price paid to Manufacturing.

Suppose Manufacturing is located in Country A with a tax rate of 60 percent and Assembly in Country B with a tax rate of 40 percent. All other facts remain the same.

Required:

a. Current production levels in Manufacturing are 200,000 units. Assembly requests an additional 40,000 units to produce a special order. What transfer price would you recommend?

b. Suppose Manufacturing is operating at full capacity. What transfer price would you recommend?

c. Suppose Manufacturing is operating at 380,000 units. What transfer price would you recommend?

a. Optimal transfer price b. Transfer price c. Transfer price per unit per unit per unit