Atlas Steel Company produces three grade of steel: high, good, and regular grade. Each of these products
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Atlas Steel Company produces three grade of steel: high, good, and regular grade. Each of these products (grades) has high demand in the market, and Atlas is able to sell as much as it can produce of all three. The furnace operation is a bottleneck in the process an dit running at 100% of capacity. Atlas wants to improve steel operation profitability. The variable conversion cost is $6 per process hour. The fixed cost is $1,530,000. In addition, the cost analyst was able to determine the following information about the three products.
The furnace operation is part of the total process for each of these three products. Thus for example, 5 of the 15 hours required to process High Grade steel are associated with the furnace.
1. Determine the unit contribution margin for each product.
2. Provide an analysis to determine the relative product profitability's, assuming that the furnace is abottleneck.
Contribution margin is an important element of cost volume profit analysis that managers carry out to assess the maximum number of units that are required to be at the breakeven point. Contribution margin is the profit before fixed cost and taxes...
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