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 $296,000 for the company as a whole. In addition, the following information is available about the three products:   Large Medium Small Unit selling price $324   $286   $158   Unit variable cost 255   234   139   Unit contribution margin $ 69   $ 52   $ 19   Autoclave hours per unit 6   4   2   Total process hours per unit 18   8   6   Budgeted units of production 4,700   4,700   4,700   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 produced         Revenues         Less: Variable costs         Contribution margin         Less: Fixed costs         Income from operations         b.  Prepare an analysis showing which product is the most profitable per bottleneck hour. Round the "Unit contribution margin per production bottleneck hour" amounts to the nearest cent.   Large Medium Small Unit contribution margin       Autoclave hours per unit       Unit contribution margin per production bottleneck hour

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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 $296,000 for the company as a whole. In addition, the following information is available about the three products:

  Large Medium Small
Unit selling price $324   $286   $158  
Unit variable cost 255   234   139  
Unit contribution margin $ 69   $ 52   $ 19  
Autoclave hours per unit 6   4   2  
Total process hours per unit 18   8   6  
Budgeted units of production 4,700   4,700   4,700  

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 produced        
Revenues        
Less: Variable costs        
Contribution margin        
Less: Fixed costs        
Income from operations        

b.  Prepare an analysis showing which product is the most profitable per bottleneck hour. Round the "Unit contribution margin per production bottleneck hour" amounts to the nearest cent.

  Large Medium Small
Unit contribution margin      
Autoclave hours per unit      
Unit contribution margin per production bottleneck hour      
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