Sherene Nili manages a company that produces wedding gowns

Sherene Nili manages a company that produces wedding gowns. She produces both a custom product that is made to order and a standard product that is sold in bridal salons. Her accountant prepared the following forecasted income statement for March, which is a busy month:

…………………………………Custom Dresses……Standard Dresses…….Total
Number of dresses…………………….10……………...……20…………..…..…30
Sales revenue……………………..50,000………………25,000……….……75,000
Materials………………………….10,000……………..…8,000………….…18,000
Labor……………………………..20,000…………..……9,000……….……29,000
Machine depreciation…………..600…………….……300…………..……900
Rent………………………………..4,200…………..……2,800……..….……7,000
Heat and Light………………..1,000…………………600…………...….1,600
Other production costs………..........................................2,800
Marketing and administration……………………………………………..7,700
Total costs………………………………………………………………..……67,000
Operating profit…………………………………………………………………8,000

Ms. Nili already has orders for the 10 custom dresses reflect in the March forecasted income statement. The depreciation charges are for march used in the respective product lines. Machines depreciate at the rate of $1 per hour based on hours used, so these are variable cost. In March, cutting and sewing machines are expected to operate for 900 hours, of which 600 hours will be used to make custom dresses. The rent is for the building space, which has been leased for several years at $7,000 per month. The rent, heat, and light are allocated to the product lines based on the amount of floor space occupied.
A valued customer, who is a wedding consultant, has asked Ms. Nili for a special favor. This customer has a client who wants to get married in early April. Ms. Nili’s company is working at capacity and would have to give up some other business to make this dress. She can’t renege on custom orders already agreed to, but she can reduce the number of standard dresses produced in March to 10. Ms Nili would lose permanently the opportunity to make up the lost production of standard dresses because she has no unused capacity for the foreseeable future. The customer is willing to pay $25,000 for the special order. Materials and labor for the order will cost $6,000 and $10,000, respectively. The special order would require 140 hours of machine time. Ms. Nili’s company would save 150 hours of machine time from the standard dress business given up. Rent, heat and light, and other production cost would not be affected by the special order.

Question
1. Should Ms. Nili take the order? Explain?
2. What is the minimum price Ms. Nili should accept to take the special order?
3. What are the other factors, if any, besides price that she should consider?


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Imperial Jewelers is considering a special order for 20 handcrafted gold bracelets to be given as gifts to members of a wedding party

Exercise 13-4 (Evaluating a Special Order) Imperial Jewelers is considering a special order for 20 handcrafted gold bracelets to be given as gifts to members of a wedding party. The normal selling price of a gold bracelet is $189.95 and its unit product cost is $149.00 as shown below:

Direct materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 84.00
Direct labor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.00
Manufacturing overhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.00
Unit product cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $149.00

Most of the manufacturing overhead is fixed and unaffected by variations in how much jewelry is produced in any given period. However, $4.00 of the overhead is variable with respect to the number of bracelets produced. The customer who is interested in the special bracelet order would like special filigree applied to the bracelets. This filigree would require additional materials costing $2.00 per bracelet and would also require acquisition of a special tool costing $250 that would have no other use once the special order is completed. This order would have no effect on the company’s regular sales and the order could be fulfilled using the company’s existing capacity without affecting any other order.

Required:
What effect would accepting this order have on the company’s net operating income if a special price of $169.95 per bracelet is offered for this order? Should the special order be accepted at this price?


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