Question

Gwinnett Barbecue Sauce Corporation manufactures a specialty barbecue sauce. Gwinnett has the capacity to manufacture and sell 10,000 cases of sauce each year but is currently only manufacturing and selling 9,000. The following costs relate to annual operations at 9,000 cases: Total Cost Variable manufacturing cost $126,000 Fixed manufacturing cost $45,000 Variable selling and administrative cost $18,000 Fixed selling and administrative cost $27,000 Gwinnett normally sells its sauce for $30 per case. A local school district is interested in purchasing Gwinnett's excess capacity of 1,000 cases of sauce but only if they can get the sauce for $15 per case. This special order would not affect regular sales or total fixed costs or variable costs per unit. If this special order is accepted, Gwinnett's profits for the year will:

Answer 1

Answer:

b. decrease by $1,000

Explanation:

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For computing the profit or loss, first we have to determine the variable cost per unit which is shown below:

= Total variable cost ÷ Number of cases sold

= $144,000 ÷ 9,000 cases

= $16 per cases

The total variable cost would be

= $126,000 + $18,000

= $144,000

And, profit per case is $15

So, the loss per case would be

= $15 per case - $16 per case

= -$1 per case

So, the total loss would be

= 1,000 cases × $1

= $1,000 decrease