A company contemplating the acceptance of a special order has the following unit cost behavior, based on 10000 units:

Direct materials $4
Direct labor 10
Variable overhead 8
Fixed overhead 6

A foreign company wants to purchase 3900 units at a special unit price of $25. The normal price per unit is $40. In addition, a special stamping machine will have to be purchased for $4000 in order to stamp the foreign company’s name on the product. The incremental income (loss) from accepting the order is:

Afirm plans to begin production of a new small appliance. the manager must decide whether to purchase the motors for the appliance from a vendor at $10 each or to produce them in-house. either of two processes could be used for in-house production; process a would have an annual fixed cost of $200,000 and a variable cost of $7 per unit, and process b would have an annual fixed cost of $175,000 and a variable cost of $8 per unit. determine the range of annual volume for which each of the alternatives would be best. (round your first answer to the nearest whole number. include the indifference value itself in this answer.)