Brief Exercise 18-11
For Astoria Company, actual sales are $11,131,000, and breakeven sales are $7,946,000.
Compute the margin of safety in dollars.
Compute the margin of safety ratio.
Expand Your Critical Thinking 18-1
Creative Ideas Company has decided to introduce a new product.
The new product can be manufactured by either a capitalintensive method or a labor-intensive method. The manufacturing
method will not affect the quality of the product. The estimated
manufacturing costs by the two methods are as follows.
Creative Ideas’ market research department has recommended
an introductory unit sales price of $36. The incremental selling
expenses are estimated to be $562,000 annually plus $2 for each
unit sold, regardless of manufacturing method.
With the class divided into groups, answer the following.
(a)
Calculate the estimated break-even point in annual unit sales of
the new product if Creative Ideas Company uses the:
(1)
Capital-intensive manufacturing method.
(2)
Labor-intensive manufacturing method.
(b)
Determine the annual unit sales volume at which Creative Ideas
Company would be indifferent between the two manufacturing