Prepare a profit-volume graph for these two methods, and then comment at which levels of activity the one production method would be preferred over the other.

Product Decisions Under Bottlenecked Operations Youngstown Glass Company manufactures three types of safety plate glass: large, medium, and small. All three products have high demand. Thus, Youngstown Glass is able to sell all the safety glass it can make. The production process includes an autoclave operation, which is a pressurized heat treatment. The autoclave is a production bottleneck. Total fixed costs are $167,000 for the company as a whole. In addition, the following information is available about the three products:   Large Medium Small Unit selling price $381   $209   $199   Unit variable cost 300   171   175   Unit contribution margin $ 81   $ 38   $ 24   Autoclave hours per unit 6   4   2   Total process hours per unit 18   8   6   Budgeted units of production 2,600   2,600   2,600   a.  Determine the contribution margin by glass type and the total company income from operations for the budgeted units of production.   Large Medium Small Total Units…

Wildhorse Company will incur what amount of additional costs if it buys the switches?

Certain production equipment used by Dayton Mechanical has become obsolete relative to current technology. The company is considering whether it should keep or replace its existing equipment. To aid in this decision, the company’s controller gathered the following data: (See attached) c. What is the total dollar amount of all relevant costs to the equipment replacement decision. $______ d. What is the total dollar amount of the opportunity costs associated with the alternative of keeping the old equipment? $______