Required: Perform a sensitivity analysis by answering the following questions: a. What is the break-even point in sales dollars for RBC? b. What is the margin of safety for RBC? c. What sales dollars would be required to achieve an operating profit of $110,000? $470,000?
Required: Perform a sensitivity analysis by answering the following questions: a. What is the break-even point in sales dollars for RBC? b. What is the margin of safety for RBC? c. What sales dollars would be required to achieve an operating profit of $110,000? $470,000?
Chapter1: Financial Statements And Business Decisions
Section: Chapter Questions
Problem 1Q
Related questions
Question
100%
Hello, I need help solving this accounting problem.

Transcribed Image Text:Required:
Perform a sensitivity analysis by answering the following questions:
a. What is the break-even point in sales dollars for RBC?
b. What is the margin of safety for RBC?
c. What sales dollars would be required to achieve an operating profit of $110,000? $470,000?
Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below.
Required A
Required B
Required C
What is the break-even point in sales dollars for RBC? (Round intermediate calculations to 3 decimal places and your final
answer to the nearest whole dollar.)
Break-even point
< Required A
Required B >

Transcribed Image Text:Three entrepreneurs were looking to start a new brewpub near Sacramento, California, called Roseville Brewing Company (RBC).
Brewpubs provide two products to customers-food from the restaurant segment and freshly brewed beer from the beer production
segment. Both segments are typically in the same building, which allows customers to see the beer-brewing process.
After months of research, the owners created a financial model that showed the following projections for the first year of operations.
Sales
$ 763,200
1,017,600
339,200
$2,120,000
Вeer sales
Food sales
other sales
Total sales
494,384
$1,625,616
Less cost of sales
Gross margin
Less marketing and administrative expenses
1,214,000
$ 411,616
Operating profit
In the process of pursuing capital through private investors and financial institutions, RBC was approached with several questions. The
following represents a sample of the more common questions asked:
• What is the break-even point?
• What sales dollars will be required to make $110,000? To make $470,000?
• Is the product mix reasonable? (Beer tends to have a higher contribution margin ratio than food, and therefore product mix
assumptions are critical to profit projections.)
• What happens to operating profit if the product mix shifts?
• How will changes in price affect operating profit?
• How much does a pint of beer cost to produce?
It became clear to the owners of RBC that the initial financial model was not adequate for answering these types of questions. After
further research, RBC created another financial model that provided the following information for the first year of operations.
Sales
Beer sales (368 of total sales)
Food sales (48 of total sales)
Other sales (16 of total sales)
$ 763,200
1,017,600
339,200
Total sales
$2,120,000
Variable Costs
Beer (118 of beer sales)
Food (308 of food sales)
Other (318 of other sales)
Wages of employees (248 of sales)
Supplies (3% of sales)
Utilities (5 of sales)
Other: credit card, misc. (38 of sales)
Total variable costs
Contribution margin
83,952
305, 280
105,152
508,800
63,600
106,000
63,600
$1,236,384
883,616
Fixed Costs
Salaries: manager, chef, brewer
Maintenance
136,000
24,000
16,000
Advertising
other: cleaning, menus, misc
Insurance and accounting
Property taxes
Depreciation
Debt service (interest on debt)
34,000
30,000
15,000
85,000
132,000
Total fixed costs
$ 472,000
Operating profit
411,616
Expert Solution

This question has been solved!
Explore an expertly crafted, step-by-step solution for a thorough understanding of key concepts.
This is a popular solution!
Trending now
This is a popular solution!
Step by step
Solved in 2 steps

Knowledge Booster
Learn more about
Need a deep-dive on the concept behind this application? Look no further. Learn more about this topic, accounting and related others by exploring similar questions and additional content below.Recommended textbooks for you


Accounting
Accounting
ISBN:
9781337272094
Author:
WARREN, Carl S., Reeve, James M., Duchac, Jonathan E.
Publisher:
Cengage Learning,

Accounting Information Systems
Accounting
ISBN:
9781337619202
Author:
Hall, James A.
Publisher:
Cengage Learning,


Accounting
Accounting
ISBN:
9781337272094
Author:
WARREN, Carl S., Reeve, James M., Duchac, Jonathan E.
Publisher:
Cengage Learning,

Accounting Information Systems
Accounting
ISBN:
9781337619202
Author:
Hall, James A.
Publisher:
Cengage Learning,

Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis…
Accounting
ISBN:
9780134475585
Author:
Srikant M. Datar, Madhav V. Rajan
Publisher:
PEARSON

Intermediate Accounting
Accounting
ISBN:
9781259722660
Author:
J. David Spiceland, Mark W. Nelson, Wayne M Thomas
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Education

Financial and Managerial Accounting
Accounting
ISBN:
9781259726705
Author:
John J Wild, Ken W. Shaw, Barbara Chiappetta Fundamental Accounting Principles
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Education