Moses Moonrocks Inc. has developed a balanced scorecard with a measure map that suggests that the number of erroneous shipments has a direct effect on operating profit. The company estimates that every shipment error leads to a reduction of revenue by $4920 and increased costs of about $3,280. Sales $226,000 Cost of goods sold 156,000 Depreciation expense 18,000 Other expenses 11,000 If the company has the above budgeted sales and costs for next month (without accounting for any possible shipping errors), determine how many shipping errors the company can afford to have and still break even. Break-even shipping errors
Moses Moonrocks Inc. has developed a balanced scorecard with a measure map that suggests that the number of erroneous shipments has a direct effect on operating profit. The company estimates that every shipment error leads to a reduction of revenue by $4920 and increased costs of about $3,280. Sales $226,000 Cost of goods sold 156,000 Depreciation expense 18,000 Other expenses 11,000 If the company has the above budgeted sales and costs for next month (without accounting for any possible shipping errors), determine how many shipping errors the company can afford to have and still break even. Break-even shipping errors
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Moses Moonrocks Inc. has developed a balanced scorecard with a measure map that suggests that the number of erroneous shipments has a direct effect on operating profit. The company estimates that every shipment error leads to a reduction of
revenue by $4,920 and increased costs of about $3,280.
Sales
$226,000
Cost of goods sold
156,000
Depreciation expense
18,000
Other expenses
11,000
If the company has the above budgeted sales and costs for next month (without accounting for any possible shipping errors), determine how many shipping errors the company can afford to have and still break even.
Break-even shipping errors
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