Mason Textile Company manufactures high-quality bed sheets and sells them in sets to a well-known retail company

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Mason Textile Company manufactures high-quality bed sheets and sells them in sets to a well-known retail company for $64 a set. Mason has sufficient capacity to produce 150,000 sets of sheets annually; the retail company currently purchases 100,000 sets each year. Mason’s unit-level cost is $36 per set and its fixed cost is $840,000 per year. A motel chain has offered to purchase 15,000 sheet sets from Mason for $45 per set. If Mason accepts the order, the contract will prohibit the motel chain from reselling the bed sheets.

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Should Mason accept or reject the special order? Support your answer with appropriate computations.

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Fundamental Managerial Accounting Concepts

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