Bundle: Managerial Accounting, Loose-leaf Version, 14th - Book Only
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Author: Carl Warren; James M. Reeve; Jonathan Duchac
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Margin of Safety: It is a measure that shows the probability of decrease in the sales level before a company faces an operating loss or reaches its break-even point. It is expressed in terms of dollars of sales, unit of sales, and percent of current sales. The formula to calculate the margin of safety as a percent of current sales is as follows:
the Company L’s margin of safety as a percent of current sales.
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