Cost Accounting (15th Edition)

Published by Prentice Hall
ISBN 10: 0133428702
ISBN 13: 978-0-13342-870-4

Chapter 3 - Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships - Assignment Material - Exercises - Page 94: 3-19(6)

Answer

A 7% decrease in units sold (revenue) would mean that variable costs will also decline with the same proportion - causing contribution margin to decrease as well. The budgeted operating income for this deviation can be worked out as follows;

Work Step by Step

(W-1): 10,400,000 × 93% = USD 9,672,000 (W-2): 7,900,000 × 93% = USD 7,347,000
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