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Margin of Safety Comer Company produces and sells strings of colorful indoor/outdoor lights for holiday display...

Margin of Safety

Comer Company produces and sells strings of colorful indoor/outdoor lights for holiday display to retailers for $15.31 per string. The variable costs per string are as follows:

Direct materials $1.87
Direct labor 1.70
Variable factory overhead 0.57
Variable selling expense 0.42

Fixed manufacturing cost totals $764,325 per year. Administrative cost (all fixed) totals $557,925. Comer expects to sell 203,600 strings of light next year.

Required:

1. Calculate the break-even point in units.
units

2. Calculate the margin of safety in units.
units

3. Calculate the margin of safety in dollars.
$

4. Conceptual Connection: Suppose Comer actually experiences a price decrease next year while all other costs and the number of units sold remain the same. Would this increase or decrease risk for the company? (Hint: Consider what would happen to the number of break-even units and to the margin of safety.)

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