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Transcribed Image Text:Special-Order Decision, Alternatives, Relevant Costs
Sequoia Paper Products, Inc., manufactures boxed stationery for sale to specialty shops. Currently, the company is operating
at 85 percent of capacity. A chain of drugstores has offered to buy 25,000 boxes of Sequoia's blue-bordered thank-you notes
as long as the box can be customized with the drugstore chain's logo. While the normal selling price is $5.60 per box, the
chain has offered just $3.20 per box. Sequoia can accommodate the special order without affecting current sales. Unit cost
information for a box of thank-you notes follows:
Direct materials
$1.50
Direct labor
0.37
Variable overhead
0.08
Fixed overhead
2.05
Total cost per box
$4.00
Fixed overhead is $403,000 per year and will not be affected by the special order. Normally, there is a commission of 5
percent of price; this will not be paid on the special order since the drugstore chain is dealing directly with the company. The
special order will require additional fixed costs of $14,100 for the design and setup of the machinery to stamp the drugstore
chain's logo on each box.
Required:
1. Which alternative is more cost effective and by how much?
Accept the special order
The operating income would increase by $
х.
2. What if Sequoia Paper Products was operating at capacity and accepting the special order would require rejecting an
equivalent number of boxes sold to existing customers? Which alternative would be better? Reqular sales
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