Kick-As Sporting Goods is a retailer of sporting equipment. Last year, Kick-As sales revenues totalled $5,000,000. Total
Question:
Kick-A’s Sporting Goods is a retailer of sporting equipment. Last year, Kick-A’s sales revenues totalled $5,000,000. Total expenses were $2,100,000. Of this amount, approximately $1,500,000 were variable, while the remainder were fixed. Since Kick-A’s Sporting Goods offers thousands of different products, its managers prefer to calculate the break-even point in terms of sales dollars rather than units.
Requirements
1. What is Kick-A’s Sporting Goods’ current operating income? (Prepare a contribution margin format income statement.)
2. What is Kick-A’s contribution margin ratio?
3. What is Kick-A’s break-even point in sales dollars?
4. Top management is deciding whether to embark on a $200,000 advertising campaign. The marketing firm has projected annual sales volume to increase by 15% as a result of this campaign. Assuming that the projections are correct, what effect would this advertising campaign have on Kick-A’s Sporting Goods’ annual operating income?
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Managerial Accounting
ISBN: 9780135443446
4th Canadian Edition
Authors: Karen Braun, Wendy Tietz, Louis Beaubien