Managerial Accounting (5th Edition)
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Author: Karen W. Braun, Wendy M. Tietz
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 7, Problem 7.60BE
Comprehensive CVP analysis (Learning Objectives 1, 2. 3. 4, & 5)
Gamma Manufacturing manufactures 256GB SD cards (memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras, and other devices). Price and cost data for a relevant range extending to 200,000 units per month are as follows:
Requirements
- 1. What is the company’s contribution margin per unit? Contribution margin percentage? Total contribution margin?
- 2. What would the company’s monthly operating income be if the company sold 130,000 units?
- 3. What would the company’s monthly operating income be if the company had sales of $4,500,000?
- 4. What is the breakeven point in units? In sales dollars?
- 5. How many units would the company have to sell to earn a target monthly profit of $259,700?
- 6. Management is currently in contract negotiations with the labor union. If the negotiations fail, direct labor costs will increase by 10% and fixed costs will increase by $23,500 per month. If these costs increase, how many units will the company have to sell each month to break even?
- 7. Return to the original data for this question and the rest of the questions. What is the company’s current operating leverage factor (round to two decimals)?
- 8. If sales volume increases by 7%, by what percentage will operating income increase?
- 9. What is the company’s current margin of safety in sales dollars? What is its margin of safety as a percentage of sales?
- 10. Say the company adds a second size of SD card (512GB in addition to 256GB). A 512GB SD card will sell for $50 and have variable cost per unit of $28 per unit. The expected sales mix is four of the 256GB SD cards for every one of the 512GB SD cards. Given this sales mix, how many of each type of SD card will the company need to sell to reach its target monthly profit of $259,700? Is this volume higher or lower than previously needed (in Question 5) to achieve the same target profit? Why?
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Learning Tasks
A. Discussion Questions:
1. Explain why a contribution margin per unit becomes profit per unit above the breakeven
point.
2. Suppose a firm with a contribution margin percentage of 30% increased its advertising
expenses by P10,000 and found that sales increased by P 30,000. Was it a good
decision to increase advertising expenses? Suppose that the contribution margin ratio is
now 40%. Would it be a good decision to increase advertising expense?
B. Fill in the blanks for each of the following independent cases.
Case
Revenues
Variable Cost
Fixed Cost
Total Costs
Operating
Contribution
Income
Margin
Percentage
A
P500
P-
P800
P1,200
2,000
1,000
В
300
200
C
700
1,000
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300
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Assessment Task
Chapter 7 Solutions
Managerial Accounting (5th Edition)
Ch. 7 - (Learning Objective 1) The contribution margin is...Ch. 7 - (Learning Objective 1) The contribution margin...Ch. 7 - (Learning Objective 2) The formula to find the...Ch. 7 - Prob. 4QCCh. 7 - Prob. 5QCCh. 7 - Prob. 6QCCh. 7 - (Learning Objective 4) Which of the following is...Ch. 7 - Prob. 8QCCh. 7 - Prob. 9QCCh. 7 - Prob. 10QC
Ch. 7 - Compute unit contribution margin and contribution...Ch. 7 - Prob. 7.2SECh. 7 - Prob. 7.3SECh. 7 - Find target profit volume (Learning Objective 2)...Ch. 7 - Prob. 7.5SECh. 7 - Prob. 7.6SECh. 7 - Prob. 7.7SECh. 7 - Prob. 7.8SECh. 7 - Compute margin of safety (Learning Objective 5)...Ch. 7 - Compute and use operating leverage factor...Ch. 7 - Calculate breakeven and target profit sales...Ch. 7 - Prob. 7.12SECh. 7 - Prob. 7.13SECh. 7 - Prob. 7.14SECh. 7 - Compute margin of safety (Learning Objective 5)...Ch. 7 - Compute and use operating leverage factor...Ch. 7 - Prob. 7.17SECh. 7 - Prob. 7.18SECh. 7 - Prepare contribution margin income statements...Ch. 7 - Work backward to find missing information...Ch. 7 - Find breakeven and target profit volume (Learning...Ch. 7 - Prob. 7.22AECh. 7 - Prob. 7.23AECh. 7 - Prob. 7.24AECh. 7 - Prob. 7.25AECh. 7 - Prob. 7.26AECh. 7 - Sustainability and CVP concepts (Learning...Ch. 7 - Prob. 7.28AECh. 7 - Calculate contribution margin and breakeven...Ch. 7 - Prob. 7.30AECh. 7 - Extension of E7-30A: Multiproduct firm (Learning...Ch. 7 - Prob. 7.32AECh. 7 - Breakeven and an advertising decision at a...Ch. 7 - Prob. 7.34AECh. 7 - Prob. 7.35AECh. 7 - Prob. 7.36AECh. 7 - Comprehensive CVP analysis (Learning Objectives 1,...Ch. 7 - Comprehensive CVP analysis (Learning Objectives 1,...Ch. 7 - Prob. 7.39AECh. 7 - Prob. 7.40BECh. 7 - Work backward to find missing information...Ch. 7 - Find breakeven and target profit volume (Learning...Ch. 7 - Prob. 7.43BECh. 7 - Prob. 7.44BECh. 7 - Prob. 7.45BECh. 7 - Prob. 7.46BECh. 7 - Continuation of E7-46B: Changing business...Ch. 7 - Sustainability and CVP (Learning Objective 3)...Ch. 7 - Prob. 7.49BECh. 7 - Prob. 7.50BECh. 7 - Prob. 7.51BECh. 7 - Prob. 7.52BECh. 7 - Find breakeven for a multiproduct firm (Learning...Ch. 7 - Breakeven and an advertising decision at a...Ch. 7 - Compute margin of safety and operating leverage...Ch. 7 - Use operating leverage factor to find fixed costs...Ch. 7 - Prob. 7.57BECh. 7 - Comprehensive CVP analysis (Learning Objectives 1,...Ch. 7 - Prob. 7.59BECh. 7 - Comprehensive CVP analysis (Learning Objectives 1,...Ch. 7 - Find missing data in CVP relationships (Learning...Ch. 7 - Prob. 7.62APCh. 7 - Prob. 7.63APCh. 7 - Prob. 7.64APCh. 7 - Prob. 7.65APCh. 7 - Prob. 7.66APCh. 7 - Find missing data in CVP relationships (Learning...Ch. 7 - Prob. 7.68BPCh. 7 - Comprehensive CVP problem (Learning Objectives 1,...Ch. 7 - Prob. 7.70BPCh. 7 - Prob. 7.71BPCh. 7 - CVP analysis at a multiproduct firm (Learning...Ch. 7 - Prob. 7.73SCCh. 7 - Discussion Questions 1. Define breakeven point....Ch. 7 - Prob. 7.75ACTCh. 7 - Prob. 7.76ACTCh. 7 - Prob. 7.77ACT
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