An engineering consulting firm measures its output in a standard service hour unit, which is a function of the personnel grade levels in the professional staff. The variable cost (cv) is $62 per standard service hour. The charge-out rate [i.e., selling price (p)] is $85.56 per hour. The maximum output of the firm is 160,000 hours per year, and its fixed cost (CF ) is $2,024,000 per year. For this firm, (a) what is the breakeven point in standard service hours and in percentage of total capacity? (b) what is the percentage reduction in the breakeven point (sensitivity) if fixed costs are reduced 10%; if variable cost per hour is reduced 10%; and if the selling price per unit is increased by 10%?

Sue Bee Honey is one of the largest processors of its product for the retail market. Assume that one of its plants has annual fixed costs totaling $16,317,500, of which $5,250,500 is for administrative and selling efforts. Sales are anticipated to be 950,000 cases a year. Variable costs for processing are $35 per case, and variable selling expenses are 10% of selling price. There are no variable administrative expenses If the company desires a pretax profit of $9,000,000, what is the selling price per case?

Perusall Chalmers Corporation operates in multiple areas of the globe, and relatively large price changes are common. Presently, the company sells 105,600 units for $50 per unit. The variable production costs are $20, and fixed costs amount to $2,079,000. Production engineers have advised management that they expect unit labor costs to rise by 10 percent and unit materials costs to rise by 15 percent in the coming year. Of the $20 variable costs, 25 percent are from labor and 50 percent are from materials. Variable overhead costs are expected to increase by 20 percent. Sales prices cannot increase more than 12 percent. It is also expected that fixed costs will rise by 10 percent as a result of increased taxes and other miscellaneous fixed charges. The company wishes to maintain the same level of profit in real dollar terms. It is expected that to accomplish this objective, profits must increase by 8 percent during the year. Saved Required: a. Compute the volume in units and the dollar…

Houpe Corporation produces and sells a single product. Data concerning that product appear below: Per Unit Percent of Sales Selling price $ 140 100% Variable expenses 42 30% Contribution margin $ 98 70% Fixed expenses are $490,000 per month. The company is currently selling 6,000 units per month. The marketing manager would like to introduce sales commissions as an incentive for the sales staff. The marketing manager has proposed a commission of $11 per unit. In exchange, the sales staff would accept a decrease in their salaries of $58,000 per month. (This is the company's savings for the entire sales staff.) The marketing manager predicts that introducing this sales incentive would increase monthly sales by 100 units. What should be the overall effect on the company's monthly net operating income of this change?