Winter Sports manufactures snowboards. Its cost of making 1,700 bindings is as follows: (Click the icon to view the costs.) Suppose Monroe will sell bindings to Winter Sports for $14 each. Winter Sports would pay $2 per unit to transport the bindings to its manufacturing plant, where it would add its own logo at a cost of $0.50 pe binding. Read the requirements. Requirement 1. Winter Sports' accountants predict that purchasing the bindings from Monroe will enable the company to avoid $2,600 of fixed overhead. Prepare an analysis to show whether Winter Sports should make or buy the bindings. (Only enter the net relevant costs. For the Difference column, use a minus sign or parentheses only when the cost of outsourcing exceeds the cost of making the bindings in-house.) Should Winter Sports make or buy the bindings? Decision: decreases to net costs.) Transportation Logo Expected profit from new product Expected net cost of obtaining 1,700 bindings Which alternative makes the best use of Winter Sports' facilities? Decision: Requirements 1. Winter Sports' accountants predict that purchasing the bindings from Monroe will enable the company to avoid $2,600 of fixed overhead. Prepare an analysis to show whether Winter Sports should make or buy the bindings. 2. The facilities freed by purchasing bindings from Monroe can be used to manufacture another product that will contribute $3,500 to profit. Total fixed costs will be the same as if Winter Sports had produced the bindings. Show which alternative makes the best use of Winter Sports' facilities: (a) make bindings, (b) buy bindings and leave facilities idle, or (c) buy bindings and make another product. Data table