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Break-Even Sales Under Present and Proposed Conditions Howard Industries Inc., operating at full capacity, sold 64,000...

Break-Even Sales Under Present and Proposed Conditions

Howard Industries Inc., operating at full capacity, sold 64,000 units at a price of $45 per unit during the current year. Its income statement is as follows:

Sales $2,880,000
Cost of goods sold (1,400,000)
Gross profit $1,480,000
Expenses:
Selling expenses $400,000
Administrative expenses 387,500
Total expenses (787,500)
Operating income $692,500

The division of costs between variable and fixed is as follows:

Variable Fixed
Cost of goods sold 75% 25%
Selling expenses 60% 40%
Administrative expenses 80% 20%

Management is considering a plant expansion program for the following year that will permit an increase of $900,000 in yearly sales. The expansion will increase fixed costs by $212,500 but will not affect the relationship between sales and variable costs.

Required:

1. Determine the total fixed costs and the total variable costs for the current year.

Total variable costs $
Total fixed costs $

2. Determine (a) the unit variable cost and (b) the unit contribution margin for the current year.

Unit variable cost $
Unit contribution margin $

3. Compute the break-even sales (units) for the current year.
units

4. Compute the break-even sales (units) under the proposed program for the following year.
units

5. Determine the amount of sales (units) that would be necessary under the proposed program to realize the $692,500 of operating income that was earned in the current year.
units

6. Determine the maximum operating income possible with the expanded plant.
$

7. If the proposal is accepted and sales remain at the current level, what will the operating income or loss be for the following year?
$   

8. Based on the data given, would you recommend accepting the proposal?

  1. In favor of the proposal because of the reduction in break-even point.
  2. In favor of the proposal because of the possibility of increasing operating income.
  3. In favor of the proposal because of the increase in break-even point.
  4. Reject the proposal because if future sales remain at the current level, the operating income will increase.
  5. Reject the proposal because the sales necessary to maintain the current operating income would be below the current year sales.

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Q 8. Option B

In favour of the proposal because of the possibility of increasing net operating income

Current year = $ 692,500

Revised year = $ 1,380,000

Difference = $ 687,500

Therefore the Net operating income will increase by

$ 687,500

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