Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making
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Chapter 5, Problem 5.11E
Spencer Kars provides shuttle service between four hotels near a medical center and an international airport. Spencer Kars uses two 10-passenger vans to offer 12 round trips per day. A recent month's activity in the form of a cost-volume-profit income statement is shown below.
| Fare revenues (1,500 fares) | $36,000 | |
| Variable costs | ||
| Fuel | $ 5,040 | |
| Tolls and parking | 3,100 | |
| Maintenance | 860 | 9,000 |
| Contribution margin | 27,000 | |
| Fixed costs | ||
| Salaries | 15,700 | |
| 1,300 | ||
| Insurance | 1,000 | 18,000 |
| Net income | $ 9.000 | |
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(a) Calculate the break-even point in (1) dollars and (2) number of fares.
(b) Without calculations, determine the contribution margin at the break-even point.
E5-12 In 2016, Manhoff Company had a break-even point of $350,000 based on a selling price of $5 Der unit and fixed costs of $112.000. In 2017. the selling price and the variable
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