3 Executive management at Cup of Joe coffee shops is very pessimistic aboutthe chain's ability to maintain current sales volume and estimates decreasesin sales in each of the next six years. Decrease in the company's profit will be:minimum if management creates a(n)low leverage cost structure.operating leverage does not affect decrease in profit. Ocost structure does not affect decrease in profit. Omedium leverage cost structure. Ohigh leverage cost structure. O Chile's, Inc. currently produces and sells 4,000 units of a product that has acontribution margin of $6 per unit. The company sells the product for a salesprice of $20 per unit. Fixed costs are $18,000. The company has consideringinvesting in new technology that would decrease the variable cost per unitto $8 per unit and increase fixed costs to $33,000. The company expects thenew technology to increase production and sales to 9,000 units of product.?What sales price would have to be charged to earn a $93,000 target profit$8 O$16 O$22 O$18 O$20 OQuiet Truuck.manufactures nart WP22M

Executive management at Cup of Joe coffee shops is very pessimistic about the chain's ability to maintain current sales volume and estimates decreases in sales in each of the next six years. Decrease in the company's profit will be :minimum if management creates a(n) low leverage cost structure. O operating leverage does not affect decrease in profit. O cost structure does not affect decrease in profit. O medium leverage cost structure. O high leverage cost structure. O

Executive management at Cup of Joe coffee shops is very pessimistic about the chain's ability to maintain current sales volume and estimates decreases in sales in each of the next six years. Decrease in the company's profit will be :minimum if management creates a(n) low leverage cost structure. O operating leverage does not affect decrease in profit. O cost structure does not affect decrease in profit. O medium leverage cost structure. O high leverage cost structure. O

Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation

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Chapter10: Forecasting Financial Statement

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Suppose you are analyzing a firm that is successfully executing a strategy that differentiates its products from those of its competitors. Because of this strategy, you project that next year the firm will generate 6.0% revenue growth from price increases and 3.0% revenue growth from sales volume increases. Assume that the firms production cost structure involves strictly variable costs. (That is, the cost to produce each unit of product remains the same.) Should you project that the firms gross profit will increase next year? If you project that the gross profit will increase, is the increase a result of volume growth, price growth, or both? Should you project that the firms gross profit margin (gross profit divided by sales) will increase next year? If you project that the gross profit margin will increase, is the increase a result of volume growth, price growth, or both?
Danna Martin, president of Mays Electronics, was concerned about the end-of-the year marketing report that she had just received. According to Larry Savage, marketing manager, a price decrease for the coming year was again needed to maintain the companys annual sales volume of integrated circuit boards (CBs). This would make a bad situation worse. The current selling price of 18 per unit was producing a 2-per-unit profithalf the customary 4-per-unit profit. Foreign competitors kept reducing their prices. To match the latest reduction would reduce the price from 18 to 14. This would put the price below the cost to produce and sell it. How could these firms sell for such a low price? Determined to find out if there were problems with the companys operations, Danna decided to hire a consultant to evaluate the way in which the CBs were produced and sold. After two weeks, the consultant had identified the following activities and costs: The consultant indicated that some preliminary activity analysis shows that per-unit costs can be reduced by at least 7. Since the marketing manager had indicated that the market share (sales volume) for the boards could be increased by 50% if the price could be reduced to 12, Danna became quite excited. Required: 1. CONCEPTUAL CONNECTION What is activity-based management? What phases of activity analysis did the consultant provide? What else remains to be done? 2. CONCEPTUAL CONNECTION Identify as many nonvalue-added costs as possible. Compute the cost savings per unit that would be realized if these costs were eliminated. Was the consultant correct in the preliminary cost reduction assessment? Discuss actions that the company can take to reduce or eliminate the nonvalue-added activities. 3. Compute the unit cost required to maintain current market share, while earning a profit of 4 per unit. Now compute the unit cost required to expand sales by 50%, assuming a per-unit profit of 4. How much cost reduction would be required to achieve each unit cost? 4. Assume that further activity analysis revealed the following: switching to automated insertion would save 60,000 of engineering support and 90,000 of direct labor. Now, what is the total potential cost reduction per unit available from activity analysis? With these additional reductions, can Mays achieve the unit cost to maintain current sales? To increase it by 50%? What form of activity analysis is this: reduction, sharing, elimination, or selection? 5. CONCEPTUAL CONNECTION Calculate income based on current sales, prices, and costs. Then calculate the income by using a 14 price and a 12 price, assuming that the maximum cost reduction possible is achieved (including Requirement 4s reduction). What price should be selected?
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Company D's top management is growing concerned that one of its divisions, Division D, will not be able to meet its current period income goals. Division D uses absorption costing for internal profit reporting and had an adequate level of inventory at the beginning of the period. Division D's manager knows that he can raise profits by increasing production at the end of the period. The increased production will allocate fixed costs over a greater number of units. This, in turn, will reduce cost of goods sold and increase earnings. However, it is unlikely that the additional production will be sold, resulting in a large ending inventory balance. The manager of Division D has come to Alfonso Yates, the divisional controller, to find out exactly how much additional production is needed to increase net income enough to meet the division's profit goals. Alfonso analyzes Division D's financial numbers and determines that the division will need to increase inventory by 25% in order to absorb…
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