1. Managerial Accounting
Wild and Shaw
Third Edition
McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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2. Cost Behavior and Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
Chapter 5
Cost Behavior and Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis

3. Conceptual Learning Objectives
C1: Describe different types of cost behavior in relation to production and sales volume.
C2: Describe several applications of cost-volume-profit analysis.
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4. Analytical Learning Objectives
A1: Compute the contribution margin and describe what it reveals about a company’s cost structure.
A2: Analyze changes in sales using the degree of operating leverage.
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5. Procedural Learning Objectives
P1: Determine cost estimates using the scatter diagram, high-low, and regression methods of estimating costs.
P2: Compute the break-even point for a single product company.
P3: Graph costs and sales for a single product company.
P4: Compute the break-even point for a multiproduct company.
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6. Questions Addressed by Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
CVP analysis is used to answer questions such as:
What sales volume is needed to earn a target income?
What is the change in income if selling prices decline and sales volume increases?
How much does income increase if we install a new machine to reduce labor costs?
What is the income effect if we change the sales mix of our products or services?
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7. Cost Behavior Summary C1
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8. Mixed Costs C1
Mixed costs contain a fixed portion that is incurred even when the facility is unused, and a variable portion that increases with usage.
Example: monthly electric utility charge
Fixed service fee
Variable charge per kilowatt hour used
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9. Total cost remains constant within a narrow range of activity.
Step-Wise Costs C1
Total cost remains constant within a narrow range of activity.
Cost
Activity
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10. Computing The Break-Even Point
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We have just seen one of the basic CVP relationships – the break-even computation.
Break-even point in units =
Fixed costs
Contribution margin per unit
Unit sales price less unit variable cost
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11. Costs and Revenue in Dollars
Preparing a CVP Chart P3
Sales
Total fixed costs
Costs and Revenue in Dollars
Total costs
Break-even Point
Volume in Units
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12. Assumptions of CVP Analysis
A limited range of activity called the relevant range, where CVP relationships are linear.
Unit selling price remains constant.
Unit variable costs remain constant.
Total fixed costs remain constant.
Production = sales (no inventory changes).
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13. Computing Sales for a Target Income
Break-even formulas may be adjusted to show the sales volume needed to earn any amount of income.
Fixed costs + Target income
Unit sales =
Contribution margin per unit
Fixed costs + Target income
Dollar sales =
Contribution margin ratio
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14. Computing Multiproduct Break-Even Point
The CVP formulas may be modified for use when a company sells more than one product.
The unit contribution margin is replaced with the contribution margin for a composite unit.
A composite unit is composed of specific numbers of each product in proportion to the product sales mix.
Sales mix is the ratio of the volumes of the various products.
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15. End of Chapter 5
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