Wade Company Is Operating at 75% of Its Manufacturing Capacity

question 34

Multiple Choice

Wade Company is operating at 75% of its manufacturing capacity of 140,000 product units per year. A customer has offered to buy an additional 20,000 units at $32 each and sell them outside the country so as not to compete with Wade. The following data are available:

In producing 20,000 additional units, fixed overhead costs would remain at their current level but incremental variable overhead costs of $6 per unit would be incurred. What is the effect on income if Wade accepts this order?

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United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, a set of accounting standards and principles used to prepare financial statements in the U.S.

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