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Break-Even Point:
It is the point of sales at which entity neither earns a profit nor suffers a loss. It can also be said that the point of sales at which sales value of the entity recovers the entire cost of fixed and variable nature is called break-even point.
Operating leverage: Operating leverage refers to the measurement of the degree of the variable and fixed costs used by the firm. In other words, the operating leverage refers to the reacted amount of net income of a company for the given change is sales.
To Describe: The implications on break-even point and operating leverage, if a company replaces its manual labor with automated equipment.

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