Paige Inc Has a Division That Makes Paint and Another Division

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Essay

Paige Inc. has a division that makes paint and another division that constructs subdivision houses. The paint division incurs the following costs for one gallon of paint:
The Paint Division can make 1,000,000 gallons per year, and is at capacity. The Construction Division currently buys its paint from an outside supplier for $5.20 per gallon (the same price that the Paint Division receives).

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Definitions:

Contribution Margin

The excess of sales over variable costs; the excess of manufacturing margin over variable selling and administrative expenses.

Bottleneck Hour

A term used in production and manufacturing to describe the hour or period where the flow of processes slows down due to a limitation in output capabilities, impacting overall productivity.

Bottleneck

A point of congestion in a production system that occurs when workloads arrive too quickly for the production process to handle.

Fixed Capacity

The maximum output that a facility can produce in a given period under normal circumstances, without changing the physical setup.