CVP Analysis Learning Exercises
CVP Analysis Learning Exercises
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
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.)
EXERCISE 5
The following data from the just completed year are taken from the accounting records of Kenton Company:
Sales $ 975,000
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.