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ISBN: 9781337270595

Author: Carl Warren, James M. Reeve, Jonathan Duchac

Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Chapter 10, Problem 6PA

Product pricing and profit analysis with bottleneck operations

Hercules Steel Company produces three grades of steel: high, good, and regular grade. Each of these products (grades) has high demand in the market, and Hercules is able to sell as much as it can produce of all three. The furnace operation is a bottleneck in the process and is running at 100% of capacity. Hercules wants to improve steel operation profitability. The variable conversion cost is $15 per process hour. The fixed cost is $200,000. In addition, the cost analyst was able to determine the following information about the three products:

Chapter 10, Problem 6PA, Product pricing and profit analysis with bottleneck operations Hercules Steel Company produces three

The furnace operation is part of the total process for each of these three products. Thus, for example, 4.0 of the 12.0 hours required to process High Grade steel are associated with the furnace.

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1. Determine the unit contribution margin for each product.
2. Provide an analysis to determine the relative product profitability, assuming that the furnace is a bottleneck.

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Solution Summary: The author calculates the contribution margin per unit for each product of Company HS. Production Bottleneck is a situation where the demand for goods is higher than the production capacity of the company.

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