Mobility Partners makes wheelchairs and other assistive devices. For years it has made the rear wheel assembly for its wheelchairs. A local bicycle manufacturing firm, Trailblazers, Inc., offered to sell these rear wheel assemblies to Mobility. If Mobility makes the assembly, its cost per rear wheel assembly is as follows (based on annual production of 1,800 units): Direct materials Direct labor Variable overhead Fixed overhead Total Trailblazers' offer Materials $28 Labor 110 19 Trailblazers has offered to sell the assembly to Mobility for $164 each. The total order would amount to 1,800 rear wheel assemblies per year, which Mobility's management will buy instead of make if Mobility can save at least $20,000 per year. Accepting Trailblazers's offer would eliminate annual fixed overhead of $35,550. Required: a. Prepare a schedule that shows the total differential costs. (Select option "higher" or "lower", keeping Status Quo as the base. Select "none" if there is no effect.) 38 $195 Variable overhead Fixed overhead applied Total costs Status Quo $0 Alternative Difference $0 higher lower lower lower lower lower

Mobility Partners makes wheelchairs and other assistive devices. For years it has made the rear wheel assembly for its wheelchairs. A local bicycle manufacturing firm, Trailblazers, Inc., offered to sell these rear wheel assemblies to Mobility. If Mobility makes the assembly, its cost per rear wheel assembly is as follows (based on annual production of 1,800 units): Direct materials Direct labor Variable overhead Fixed overhead Total Trailblazers' offer Materials $28 Labor 110 19 Trailblazers has offered to sell the assembly to Mobility for $164 each. The total order would amount to 1,800 rear wheel assemblies per year, which Mobility's management will buy instead of make if Mobility can save at least $20,000 per year. Accepting Trailblazers's offer would eliminate annual fixed overhead of $35,550. Required: a. Prepare a schedule that shows the total differential costs. (Select option "higher" or "lower", keeping Status Quo as the base. Select "none" if there is no effect.) 38 $195 Variable overhead Fixed overhead applied Total costs Status Quo $0 Alternative Difference $0 higher lower lower lower lower lower

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Mobility Partners makes wheelchairs and other assistive devices. For years it has made the rear wheel assembly for its wheelchairs. A local bicycle manufacturing firm, Trailblazers, Inc., offered to sell these rear wheel assemblies to Mobility. If Mobility makes the assembly, its cost per rear wheel assembly is as follows (based on annual production of 1,800 units): Direct materials $ 27 Direct labor 104 Variable overhead 19 Fixed overhead 44 Total $ 194 Trailblazers has offered to sell the assembly to Mobility for $166 each. The total order would amount to 1,800 rear wheel assemblies per year, which Mobility's management will buy instead of make if Mobility can save at least $20,000 per year. Accepting Trailblazers's offer would eliminate annual fixed overhead of $40,050. Required: a. Prepare a schedule that shows the total differential costs. (Select option "higher" or "lower", keeping Status Quo as the base. Select "none" if there is no…
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Mobility Partners makes wheelchairs and other assistive devices. For years it has made therear wheel assembly for its wheelchairs. A local bicycle manufacturing fi rm, Trailblazers, Inc.,offered to sell these rear wheel assemblies to Mobility. If Mobility makes the assembly, its costper rear wheel assembly is as follows (based on annual production of 2,000 units):Direct materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 50Direct labor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Variable overhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Fixed overhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $282Trailblazers has offered to sell the assembly to Mobility for $220 each. The total order would amount to 2,000 rear wheel assemblies per year, which Mobility’s management will buy instead of make if Mobility can save at least $20,000 per year. Accepting Trailblazers’s offer would eliminate annual fi…
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