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Computing breakeven sales and sales needed to earn a target profit; graphing CVP relationships; performing sensitivity analysis
Big Time Investor Croup is opening an office in Boise. I'ixed monthly cose. arc oHiu rent ($8,900), depredation on office furniture ($2,000), utilities ($2,400), special telephone lines ($1,000), a connection with an online brokerage service ($2,800) and the salary of a financial planner ($17,900). Variable costs include payments to the financial planner (8% of revenue), advertising (13% of revenue), supplies anti postage (3% of revenue), and usage fees for the telephone lines anil computerized broke).ivr service (6% of revenue).
Requirements
- Use the contribution margin ratio approach to compute Big l ime's breakeven revenue in dollars. If the average trade leads to $ 1,000 in revenue for Big l ime, how many trades must be made to break even?
- Use the equation approach to compute the dollar revenues needed to earn a monthly target profit of $12,600.
- Graph Big I lines CVP relationships. Assume that an average trade leads to $1.000 in revenue for Big Time. Show the breakeven point, the sales revenue line, the fixed cost line, the total cost line, the operating l«»s.s area, the operating income area, and the sales in units (trades) and dollars when mothly operating income of $12,600 is earned.
- Suppose that the average revenue Big Time earns increases to $2,000 per trade. Compute the new breakeven point in trades How does this affect the breakeven point?
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