1. Financial advantage 2. Financial advantage 3. Financial (disadvantage)
Chapter1: Financial Statements And Business Decisions
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Transcribed Image Text:Polaski Company manufactures and sells a single product called a Ret. Operating at capacity, the company
can produce and sell 44,000 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
8
3
7
4
6
Total
$ 880,000
352,000
132,000
308,000
176,000
264,000
$48 $ 2,112,000
The Rets normally sell for $53 each. Fixed manufacturing overhead is $308,000 per year within the range of
35,000 through 44,000 Rets per year.
Required:
1. Assume that due to a recession, Polaski Company expects to sell only 35,000 Rets through regular
channels next year. A large retail chain has offered to purchase 9,000 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%. However, Polaski Company would have to purchase a special machine
to engrave the retail chain's name on the 9,000 units. This machine would cost $18,000. 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 35,000 Rets through
regular channels next year. The U.S. Army would like to make a one-time-only purchase of 9,000 Rets. The
Army would reimburse Polaski for all of the variable and fixed production costs assigned to the units by the
company's absorption costing system, plus it would pay an additional fee of $1.20 per unit. Because the
army would pick up the Rets with its own trucks, there would be no variable selling expenses associated
with this order. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of accepting the U.S. Army's special order?
1. Financial advantage
2. Financial advantage
3. Financial (disadvantage)
3. Assume the same situation as described in (2) above, except that the company expects to sell 44,000
Rets through regular channels next year. Thus, accepting the U.S. Army's order would require giving up
regular sales of 9,000 Rets. Given this new information, what is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of
accepting the U.S. Army's special order?
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