In: Finance
ABC Sdn Bhd’s profit plan for the year of 2019 is summarized below:
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 Items  | 
 RM  | 
 RM  | 
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 Sales (20,000 units)  | 
 1,000,000  | 
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 Manufacturing costs:  | 
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 Material  | 
 85,000  | 
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 Labour  | 
 80,000  | 
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 Fixed overhead  | 
 132,500  | 
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 Variable overhead  | 
 202,500  | 
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 Distribution costs:  | 
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 Fixed  | 
 170,000  | 
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 Variable  | 
 95,000  | 
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 Administration costs:  | 
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 Fixed  | 
 87,500  | 
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 Variable  | 
 17,500  | 
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 Total costs  | 
 870,000  | 
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 Profit before tax  | 
 130,000  | 
Determine the following:
(i) Compute the variable cost ratio and the P/V (contribution margin) ratio.
(ii) What is the breakeven point in RM? In units?
(iii) Calculate margin of safety in RM & %.
(iv) Assume that the management is considering revising the sales price downward by 10%. The price decrease is expected to bring about a 20% increase in sales volume.
i. variable cost ratio= variable cost/Net sales= material + labour + variable overhead/ net sales *100
= 85000+ 80000+202500/1000000*100= 36.75%
.P/V ratio= contribution/sales*100= sales-variable cost/sale*100= 632500/1000000*100= 63.25%
ii. Break even point in units and value= In value- fixed cost/p/v ratio= 132500/63.25%= 209486
in units= total units=20000= fixed cost/contribution per unit= 132500/31.625= 4190 units (Approx)
iii. Margin of safety in value and %= in value= current sales - Break even sales=1000000-209486= 790514
in % = (current sales -break even sales)/current sales*100= (1000000-209486)/1000000*100= 79.05%
iv. sales price reduced by 10 resulting in 20 % increase in volume- current sales price=50 reduced price=45
no of units = 200000 increased units = 20000*1.2=24000 total sales= 45*24000= 1080000
variable cost= 396900
contribution 683100
fixed overheads 132500
pv ratio = 63.25 % there is no change in pv ratio .
new break even point in value= fixed overhead/c
ontribution %= 132500/63.25% =209486
in units= 132500/28.4625= 4655 units(approx)
new margin of safety in value= 1080000-209486= 856031 in %= 1080000-209486/1080000*100= 80.60%