Question: I'd like help with the following problem, but please explain how you arrive at your answers. Thank you. Exercise 5-11 Break-Even Analysis; Target Profit; Margin
I'd like help with the following problem, but please explain how you arrive at your answers. Thank you.
| Exercise 5-11 Break-Even Analysis; Target Profit; Margin of Safety; CM Ratio [LO1, LO3, LO5, LO6, LO7] | ||||||||
| Pringle Company distributes a single product. The companys sales and expenses for a recent month follow: | ||||||||
| Total | Per Unit | |||||||
| Sales | $ | 304,000 | $ | 20 | ||||
| Variable expenses | 212,800 | 14 | ||||||
| Contribution margin | 91,200 | $ | 6 | |||||
| Fixed expenses | 74,400 | |||||||
| Net operating income | $ | 16,800 | ||||||
| Required: | ||||||||
| 1. What is the monthly break-even point in units sold and in sales dollars? (Omit the "$" sign in your response.) | ||||||||
| Break-even point in unit sales |
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| Break-even point in sales dollars | $ | |||||||
| 2. Without resorting to computations, what is the total contribution margin at the break-even point? (Omit the "$" sign in your response.) | ||||||||
| Total contribution margin |
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| 3. How many units would have to be sold each month to earn a target profit of $31,800? Use the formula method. | ||||||||
| Units sold | | |||||||
| Refer to the original data. Compute the company's margin of safety in both dollar and percentage terms. (Round your percentage answer to 2 decimal places. Omit the "$" and "%" signs in your response.) | ||||||||
| Dollars | Percentage | |||||||
| Margin of safety |
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| 5. What is the companys CM ratio? If monthly sales increase by $63,000 and there is no change in fixed expenses, by how much would you expect monthly net operating income to increase? (Omit the "$" and "%" signs in your response.) | ||||||||
| CM ratio |
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| Net operating income increases by | $ | |||||||
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