Managerial Accounting: Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment
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ISBN: 9781260417074
Author: HILTON, Ronald
Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL HIGHER EDUCATION
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Chapter 7, Problem 40P
Serendipity Sound, Inc. manufactures and sells compact discs. Price and cost data are as follows:
In the following requirements, ignore income taxes.
Required:
- 1. What is Serendipity Sound’s break-even point in units?
- 2. What is the company’s break-even point in sales dollars?
- 3. How many units would Serendipity Sound have to sell in order to earn $260,000?
- 4. What is the firm’s margin of safety?
- 5. Management estimates that direct-labor costs will increase by 8 percent next year. How many units will the company have to sell next year to reach its break-even point?
- 6. If the company’s direct-labor costs do increase by 8 percent, what selling price per unit of product must it charge to maintain the same contribution-margin ratio?
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