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Fancy Lighting Company makes 15,000 units per year of a part it uses in the luxury lighting products it manufactures. The unit product cost of this part is computed as follows: An outside supplier has offered to sell the company all of these parts it needs for $42.80 a unit. If the company accepts this offer, the facilities now being used to make the part could be used to make more units of a lighting product that is in high demand. The additional contribution margin on this other lighting product would be $28,500 per year. If the part were purchased from the outside supplier, all of the direct labor cost of the part would be avoided. However, $5.90 of the fixed manufacturing overhead cost being applied to the part would continue even if the part were purchased from the outside supplier. This fixed manufacturing overhead cost would be applied to the company's remaining products. Required: What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of purchasing the part rather than making it
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