Managerial Accounting: Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment

11th Edition

ISBN: 9781259569562

Author: Ronald W Hilton Proffesor Prof, David Platt

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

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Chapter 7, Problem 35P

CollegePak Company produced and sold 60,000 backpacks during the year just ended at an average price of $20 per unit. Variable manufacturing costs were $8 per unit, and variable marketing costs were $4 per unit sold. Fixed costs amounted to $180,000 for manufacturing and $72,000 for marketing. There was no year-end work-in-process inventory. (Ignore income taxes.)

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1. Compute CollegePak’s break-even point in sales dollars for the year.
2. Compute the number of sales units required to earn a net income of $180,000 during the year.
3. CollegePak’s variable manufacturing costs are expected to increase by 10 percent in the coming year. Compute the firm’s break-even point in sales dollars for the coming year.
4. If CollegePak’s variable manufacturing costs do increase by 10 percent, compute the selling price that would yield the same contribution-margin ratio in the coming year.

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