Polaski Company manufactures and sells a single product called a Ret. Operating at capacity, the company can produce and sell 46,000 Rets per year. Costs associated with this level of production and sales are given below: Direct materials Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead Fixed manufacturing overhead Variable selling expense Fixed selling expense Total cost Unit $ 20 10 3 7 2 6 $ 48 Total $ 920,000 460,000 138,000 322,000 92,000 276,000 $ 2,208,000 The Rets normally sell for $53 each. Fixed manufacturing overhead is $322,000 per year within the range of 39,000 through 46,000 Rets per year. Required: 1. Assume that due to a recession, Polaski Company expects to sell only 39,000 Rets through regular channels next year. A large retail chain has offered to purchase 7000 Rets if Polaski is willing to accept a 16% discount off the regular price. There would be no sales commissions on this order, thus, variable selling expenses would be slashed by 75%. HoweverPolaski Company would have to purchase a special machine to engrave the retail chain's name on the 7,000 units. This machine would cost $14,000. Polaski Company has no assurance that the retail chain will purchase additional units in the future. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the special order? (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.) 2. Refer to the original data. Assume again that Polaski Company expects to sell only 39,000 Rets through regular channels next year. The U.S. Army would like to make a one-time-only purchase of 7,000 Rets. The Army would pay a fixed fee of $1.20 per Ret, and it would reimburse Polaski Company for all costs of production (variable and fixed) associated with the units. Because the army would pick up the Rets with its own trucks, there would be no variable selling expenses associated with this order. What the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the U.S. Army's special order? 3. Assume the same situation as described in (2) above, except that the company expects to sell 46,000 Rets through reqular channel next year. Thus, accepting the US Army's order would require giving up regular sales of 7000 is the financial advantage (disadvantage of assentinn thall Assume that due to a recession, Polaski Company expects to sell only 39,000 Rets through regular channels ne hain has offered to purchase 7,000 Rets if Polaski is willing to accept a 16% discount off the regular price. There w ommissions on this order; thus, variable selling expenses would be slashed by 75%. However, Polaski Company urchase a special machine to engrave the retail chain's name on the 7,000 units. This machine would cost $14,00 as no assurance that the retail chain will purchase additional units in the future. What is the financial advantage (di accepting the special order? (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.) 2. Refer to the original data. Assume again that Polaski Company expects to sell only 39,000 Rets through regular The U.S. Army would like to make a one-time-only purchase of 7,000 Rets. The Army would pay a fixed fee of $1.20 would reimburse Polaski Company for all costs of production (variable and fixed) associated with the units. Because pick up the Rets with its own trucks, there would be no variable selling expenses associated with this order. What is advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the U.S. Army's special order? 3. Assume the same situation as described in (2) above, except that the company expects to sell 46,000 Rets through next year. Thus, accepting the U.S. Army's order would require giving up regular sales of 7,000 Rets. Given this new in is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the U.S. Army's special order? Answer is not complete. 1. Financial advantage 2. 3
