Short term business decisions

Best Systems manufactures an optical switch that it uses in its final product. The switch has the following manufacturing costs per unit: (Click the icon to view the costs.) Another company has offered to sell Best Systems the switch for $13.00 per unit. If Best Systems buys the switch from the outside supplier, the idle manufacturing facilities cannot be used for any other purpose, yet none of the fixed costs are avoidable. Prepare an outsourcing analysis to determine whether Best Systems should make or buy the switch. (For the Difference column, use a minus sign or parentheses only when the cost of outsourcing exceeds the cost of making the swithces in-house.) Make Outsource Difference i Data Table - X optical switch optical switch (make-outsource) Variable costs: Direct materials Direct Material $ 11.00 Direct labor Direct Labor 2.00 Variable overhead Variable Overhead 3.00 Purchase price from outsider Fixed Overhead 8.00 Total differential cost per unit Manufacturing Product Cost $ 24.00 milar Print Done Enter any nun