Cost Accounting (15th Edition)

Published by Prentice Hall
ISBN 10: 0133428702
ISBN 13: 978-0-13342-870-4

Chapter 3 - Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis - Assignment Material - Exercises - Page 95: 3-20(5)

Answer

A 10% increase in fixed costs would cause break even point (in units) to reduce. Therefore, Break Even point (in units) would be worked out as follows; BeP (Units) = Fixed Costs (Revised) / Contribution (Margin Per Unit). Hence;

Work Step by Step

Revised Fixed Costs = $ 900,000 \times 1.10 = 990,000$ Contribution margin (per unit) = 0.5 [Sales Price] - 0.3 [Variable Costs] = 0.2
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