Would you accept the order if you are the manager? (assume 20% of the manufacturing overhead is variable cost

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Consider zagol manufacturing which is engaged in the manufacturing of product ABC. To produce one unit of the product the company incurs the following costs: Direct material ______$5/kg Direct labor_________$10/hour Total Manufacturing overhead __________________$30000 The company produces a total of 10000 units per month. And the actual price the product is sold is around $24. Company XYZ offers to buy a total of 5000 units this month at the price of $ 17/unit. Would you accept the order if you are the manager? (assume 20% of the manufacturing overhead is variable cost
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ABC (Activity based Costing) is used by many manufacturing companies to eliminate the unnecessary cost associated with the products and enables them to identify and eliminate the ineffective products, decision making, determine the price of the product and so on.

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