Chapter 20: Q20-13RQ (page 1119)
What are the CVP assumptions?
Answer
When the volume of a product changes, the price per unit does not change.
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What is contribution margin?
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.
S20-14 Computing margin of safety
Refer to the original information (ignoring the changes considered in Short Exercises S20-12 and S20-13). If Funday Park expects to sell 8,100 tickets, compute the margin of safety in tickets and in sales dollars.
What effect does an increase in sales price have on contribution margin? An increase in fixed costs? An increase in variable costs?
A chain of convenience stores has one manager per store who is paid a monthly salary. Relative to Store #36 located in Atlanta, Georgia, is the manager’s salary fixed or variable? Why?
S20-9 Computing contribution margin, units and required sales to break even, units to achieve target profit
Compute the missing amounts for the following table:
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