ACC 561 Final Exam

QUESTION 4: Kai decides to add color and keep his price the same. This will increase variable costs by $0.40 per issue. What will be the new unit volume (copies per issue) required to maintain $500 profits and cover the increased fixed and variable costs?

Describe the cost system proposed by the consultant and calculate the cost of the 5 components in the case.

Unit Break-even Volume = Total Fixed Costs/Contribution per unit = $525,000 - $6.40 = 82,031.25units

In our second assumption, instead of using the cost of goods per cases in 1986, we try to use the percentage it counts in the total expenses which is 50.4% and to find the sales needed to break-even. The detail of the calculation is shown in the answer for questions d. The result is that 95,635, a little bit higher than the estimated sales of 90,000.

Determine the unit break-even point, assuming fixed costs are $60,000 per period, variable costs are $16.00 per unit, and the sales price is $25.00 per unit.

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If Marlene Herbert were to discontinue place mats, he would miss $270,000 that will go toward Mendel paper company fixed cost. The company currently has a plant overhead that is estimated at $420,000 for the quarter. In addition to the fixed plant overhead, the plant incurs fixed selling and administrative expenses per quarter of $118,000. This draws the company to a total fixed cost of $538,000. If Marlene Herbert were to discontinue the second highest contributor to the fixed cost, he would need to increase the volume of computer paper and lower material cost to help pull the contribution margin of the lowest product up to help support the lost of a whole product line.

Because each product has a different contribution margin percentage, the volume required for each break-even point would be different and will not add up to the company’s overall break-even volume of 1,100,000 units; the overall break-even volume assumes that there is only one contribution margin percentage which is :

4.    Evergreen Fertilizer Company produces fertilizer. The company’s fixed monthly cost is $25,000, and its variable cost per pound of fertilizer is $0.15. Evergreen sells the fertilizer for $0.40 per pound. Determine the monthly break-even volume for the

In the problem, the ASU bookstore is selling t-shirts for $25. The setup fee is $550 and it cost $850 to produce 100 shirts. The questions I am solving for are: How much the bookstore is paying for each shirt and should the bookstore produce 500 t-shirts? I approached the problem by using my notes as a guide. I decided to use the cost function, profit function, revenue function, and break even analysis formulas to solve this problem. The key elements I pulled from the text are these equations:

1- The total unit cost = Total Variable Cost + Production Fixed Expenses + Advertising Expense + Selling and Administrative Expense = 3.23 + 1.20 + 0.30 + 0.19 = 4.92.

Question 4: Calculate each of the three products’ break even points using the data. Why is the sum of these three volumes not equal to the 1,100,000 unit’s aggregate break-even volume?

1. MBA has total fixed costs of $2,160 per day. The firm manufactures MBA advice kits. The kits have a short-run average variable cost of $48 and are sold for $66 each. Assuming constant per unit costs in the relevant range: (i) What is the breakeven level of daily output for the firm (= BE)? (ii) What is the degree of operating leverage when daily output is Q = 170?

Gina Fox has started her own company, Foxy Shirts, which manufactures imprinted shirts for special occasions. Since she has just begun this operation, she rents the equipment from a local printing shop when necessary. The cost of using the equipment is $350. The materials used in one shirt cost $8, and Gina can sell these for $15 each. (a) If Gina sells 20 shirts, what will her total revenue be? What will her total variable cost be? (b) How many shirts must Gina sell to break even? What is the total revenue for this?

Variable Cost per Unit = ( $59,000 − $38,000 ) ÷ ( 3,000 − 1,250 ) = $12 per unit