In: Accounting
Mauro Products distributes a single product, a scarf; its selling price is $15 and its variable cost is $12 per unit. The company's monthly fixed expense is $4,200.
Required:
1. Solve for the company's break-even point in unit sales.
2. Solve for the company's break-even point in sales dollars.
3. If Mauro Products decides to drop it~ selling price to $14 with no change to the variable cost per unit or fixed expenses, what will be the new break-even point in unit sales?
1. Using the formula method:
Break-even point in units sold = Fixed expenses ÷ Unit CM
Break-even point in units sold = $4,200 ÷ $3 per scarf
Break-even point in units sold = 1,400 scarfs
2. Using the formula method:
Break-even point in sales dollars = Fixed expenses ÷ CM ratio
Break-even point in sales dollars = $4,200 ÷ 0.20
Break-even point in sales dollars =$21,000
3.
Break-even point in units sold = Fixed expenses ÷ Unit CM
Break-even point in units sold = $4,200 ÷ $2 per scarf
Break-even point in units sold = 2,100 scarfs
Break-even point in units sold = 1,400 scarfs
Break-even point in sales dollars =$21,000
Break-even point in units sold = 2,100 scarfs