Question

Gold Star Rice, Ltd., of Thailand exports Thai rice throughout Asia. The company grows three varieties of rice—White, Fragrant, and Loonzain. Budgeted sales by product and in total for the coming month are shown below:

	Product
	White					Fragrant					Loonzain					Total
Percentage of total sales		48	%				20	%				32	%				100	%
Sales	$	350,400		100	%	$	146,000		100	%	$	233,600		100	%	$	730,000		100	%
Variable expenses		105,120		30	%		116,800		80	%		128,480		55	%		350,400		48	%
Contribution margin	$	245,280		70	%	$	29,200		20	%	$	105,120		45	%		379,600		52	%
Fixed expenses																	224,640
Net operating income																$	154,960

Dollar sales to break-even	=	Fixed expenses	=	$224,640	= $432,000
		CM ratio		0.52

As shown by these data, net operating income is budgeted at $154,960 for the month and the estimated break-even sales is $432,000.

Assume that actual sales for the month total $730,000 as planned. Actual sales by product are: White, $233,600; Fragrant, $292,000; and Loonzain, $204,400.

Required:

1. Prepare a contribution format income statement for the month based on the actual sales data.

2. Compute the break-even point in dollar sales for the month based on your actual data.

Answer 1

answre 1)
Product
	White		Fragrant		Loonzain		Total
Percentage of total sales	48		20		32		100
Sales	$      233,600	100%	$      292,000	100%	$      204,400	100%	$      730,000	100%
Variable expenses	$        70,080	30%	$      233,600	80%	$      112,420	55%	$      416,100	57%
Contribution margin	$      163,520	70%	$        58,400	20%	$        91,980	45%	$      313,900	43%
Fixed expenses							$      224,640
Net operating income							$        89,260
answre 2)
Dollar sales to break-even		Fixed expenses/Contribution margin %					=224640/43%	$          522,419