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CVP Analysis Learning Exercises

Exercise 1 provides data on a company that sells a decorative plate for $10 with variable costs of $6. It has monthly fixed expenses of $7,500. You must calculate the break-even points in units and dollars and how they change with a $500 increase in fixed costs. Exercise 2 gives data for a company with a product price of $200 and variable costs of $150. With monthly fixed expenses of $75,000, you must calculate the unit sales needed for a $9,000 profit and dollar sales for a $10,000 profit. Exercise 3 provides contribution format income statements for two video games. You must calculate the overall contribution margin ratio and break-even point in dollars

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CVP Analysis Learning Exercises

Exercise 1 provides data on a company that sells a decorative plate for $10 with variable costs of $6. It has monthly fixed expenses of $7,500. You must calculate the break-even points in units and dollars and how they change with a $500 increase in fixed costs. Exercise 2 gives data for a company with a product price of $200 and variable costs of $150. With monthly fixed expenses of $75,000, you must calculate the unit sales needed for a $9,000 profit and dollar sales for a $10,000 profit. Exercise 3 provides contribution format income statements for two video games. You must calculate the overall contribution margin ratio and break-even point in dollars

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CVP ANALYSIS LEARNING EXERCISES

(from Brewer’s)

EXERCISE 1
Allwill Products distributes a single product, a decorative plate whose selling price is $10 and whose variable cost is
$6 per unit. The company’s monthly fixed expense is $7,500.
Required:
1. Calculate the company’s break-even point in unit sales.
2. Calculate the company’s break-even point in dollar sales.
3. If the company’s fixed expenses increase by $500, what would become the new breakeven point in unit
sales? In dollar sales?

EXERCISE 2
Stepman Corporation has a single product whose selling price is $200 and whose variable expense is $150 per unit.
The company’s monthly fixed expense is $75,000.
Required:
1. Calculate the unit sales needed to attain a target profit of $9,000.
2. Calculate the dollar sales needed to attain a target profit of $10,000.

EXERCISE 3
Shamrock Products markets two video games: Running and Skiing. A contribution format
income statement for a recent month for the two games appears below:
Running Skiing Total

Sales $120,000 $40,000 $160,000

Variable expenses 55,000 17,000 72,000

Contribution margin $ 65,000 $23,000 88,000

Fixed expenses 41,250

Net operating income $ 46,750

Required:
1. Compute the overall contribution margin (CM) ratio for the company.
2. Compute the overall break-even point for the company in dollar sales .
3. Verify the overall break-even point for the company by constructing a contribution format
income statement showing the appropriate levels of sales for the two products.

EXERCISE 4
Fill in the missing amounts in each of the four case situations below. Each case is independent of the
others. (Hint: One way

to find the missing amounts would be to prepare a contribution format income statement for each case,
enter the known data,and then compute the missing items.)

Case Units Sales Variable Contribution Fixed Net Operating


Sold Expenses Margin per Unit Expenses Income
A 20,000 $300,000 $220,000 ? $45,000 ?
B 12,000 ? $120,000 $15 ? $18,000

Case Sales Variable Average Contribution Fixed Net Operating


Expenses Margin Ratio Expenses Income

C $900,000 ? 40% ? $125,000

D ? ? 45% $120,000 $37,500

EXERCISE 5
The following data from the just completed year are taken from the accounting records of Kenton Company:

Sales $ 975,000

Direct labor cost $ 165,000

Raw material purchases $ 229,000

Selling expenese $ 48,750

Administrative expenses $ 146,250

Manufacturing overhead applied to work in process $ 180,000

Actual manufacturing overhead costs $ 175,050


Inventories: Beginning Ending

Raw materials $ 18,000 $ 17,500

Work in process $ 20,000 $ 14,750

Finished goods $ 9,000 $ 11,000

Required:
1. Prepare a schedule of cost of goods manufactured. Assume all raw materials used in production were direct materials.
2. Prepare a schedule of cost of goods sold. Assume that the company’s underapplied or overapplied overhead is closed to Cost of Goods Sold.
3. Prepare an income statement.

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