Chapter 20: Q20-12RQ (page 1119)
What is cost-volume-profit analysis?
Answer
A tool that explains the relationship between cost, volume and prices are known as cost-volume-profit analysis.
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Question: Use the following information to complete Short Exercises S20-10 through S20-15.
Funday Park competes with Cool World by providing a variety of rides. Funday Park sells tickets at \(70 per person as a one-day entrance fee. Variable costs are \)42 per person, and fixed costs are $170,800 per month.
Compute Funday Park’s contribution margin ratio. Carry your computation to two decimal places. Use the contribution margin ratio approach to determine the sales revenue Funday Park needs to break even
Identifying variable, fixed, and mixed costs Holly’s Day Care has been in operation for several years. Identify each cost as variable (V), fixed (F), or mixed (M), relative to number of students enrolled.
1. Building rent.
2. Toys.
3. Compensation of the office manager, who receives a salary plus a bonus based on number of students enrolled.
4. Afternoon snacks.
5. Lawn service contract at $200 per month.
6. Holly’s salary.
7. Wages of afterschool employees.
8. Drawing paper for students’ artwork.
9. Straight-line depreciation on furniture and playground equipment.
10. Fee paid to security company for monthly service.
What is a variable cost? Give an example.
Computing margin of safety
Robbie’s Repair Shop has a monthly target profit of \(31,000. Variable costs are 20%of sales, and monthly fixed costs are \)19,000.
Requirements
1. Compute the monthly margin of safety in dollars if the shop achieves its income goal.
2. Express Robbie’s margin of safety as a percentage of target sales.
3. Why would Robbie’s management want to know the shop’s margin of safety?
Question: Use the following information to complete Short Exercises S20-10 through S20-15.
Funday Park competes with Cool World by providing a variety of rides. Funday Park sells tickets at \(70 per person as a one-day entrance fee. Variable costs are \)42 per person, and fixed costs are \(170,800 per month.
Using the Funday Park information presented, do the following tasks.
Requirements
1. Suppose Funday Park cuts its ticket price from \)70 to \(56 to increase the number of tickets sold. Compute the new breakeven point in tickets and in sales dollars.
2. Ignore the information in Requirement 1. Instead, assume that Funday Park increases the variable cost from \)42 to $56 per ticket. Compute the new breakeven point in tickets and in sales dollars.
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