Cost, Volume, and Profit Formulas

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Cost, Volume, and Profit Formulas There are five components of CVP (cost-volume-profit) analysis; 1. volume or level of activity 2. unit selling prices 3. variable cost per unit 4. total fixed costs 5. sales mix Each component are import to the CVP, volume or level of activity can be explain as sales of a product or the number of units sold. Unit selling prices is the amount the product is sold. An example of this is a department store is selling two ties for $20 dollars, then the unit price of each tie is $10 dollars. The variable cost per unit is how much does it really take to make a product. Such as the tie is selling for ten dollars per unit but it only cost two dollars in materials to make. Total fixed costs are that do not change no matter what is going on, prices of material or other things, this fixed costs are things such as Salaries, building mortgages, taxes.etc. Sales mix is when other products are sold, so every product has a different unit selling price. Most stores sell different products. Such as a suit store will have ties selling at ten dollars per unit, shirts at thirty per unit, paints and so on, this is an example of sales mix. The formula illustrated in chapter 6-12, as I show above, which uses unit selling price minus unit variable costs equals contribution margin per unit. if you use this formula and if you increase the unit selling price you will have a higher contribution margin per unit. An example of this is; if my company DL inc. sells dishwashers at eight hundred dollars per unit and its variable cost per unit is three hundred dollars , how much it cost to make, my contribution margin is five hundred dollars. So if I raise my dishwashers sales from eight hundred dollars to nine hundred I will increase my contribution margin by a hundred dollars. That is what happens when unit selling prices increases. When fixed cost

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