In: Accounting
Contribution Margin Concepts
The following information is taken from the 2017 records of
Hendrix's Guitar Center.
Fixed | Variable | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Sales | $1,500,000 | |||
Costs | ||||
Goods sold | 675,000 | |||
Labor | $320,000 | 120,000 | ||
Supplies | 4,000 | 10,000 | ||
Utilities | 24,000 | 26,000 | ||
Rent | 48,000 | 0 | ||
Advertising | 12,000 | 49,000 | ||
Miscellaneous | 12,000 | 20,000 | ||
Total costs | $420,000 | $900,000 | (1,320,000) | |
Net income | $ 180,000 |
Required
(a.) Determine the annual break-even dollar sales volume.
Contribution margin ratio: Answer
Annual break-even dollar sales volumes: $Answer
(b.) Determine the current margin of safety in
dollars.
$Answer
(c.) Prepare a cost-volume-profit graph for the guitar shop. Label both axes in dollars with maximum values of $1,000,000. Draw a vertical line on the graph for the current ($750,000) sales level, and label total variable costs, total fixed costs, and total profits at $75,000 sales.
(d.) What is the annual break-even dollar sales volume if
management makes a decision that increases fixed costs by
$60,000?
$Answer