A company sells a single product for $10 per unit. Last year…
A company sells a single product for $10 per unit. Last year, the company’s sales revenue was $250,000 and its net operating income was $42,000. If fixed expenses totaled $83,000 for the year, the break-even point in units sold is:
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A company produces and sells a single product. Data concerning that product appear below: Per Unit Selling price $130 Variable expenses $78 Contribution margin $52 The company is currently selling 6,000 units per month. Fixed expenses are $263,000 per month. The marketing manager believes that a $5,000 increase in the monthly advertising budget would result in a 140 unit increase in monthly sales. What should be the overall effect on the company’s monthly net operating income of this change?
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A company purchased a machine 5 years ago for $285,000 when it launched product P50. Unfortunately, this machine has broken down and cannot be repaired. The machine could be replaced by a new model XX machine costing $340,000 or by a new model YY machine costing $325,000. Management has decided to buy the model YY machine. It has less capacity than the model XX machine, but its capacity is sufficient to continue making product P50. Management also considered, but rejected, the alternative of dropping product P50 and not replacing the old machine. If that were done, the $325,000 invested in the new machine could instead have been invested in a project that would have returned a total of $310,000.
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