ACCA F5 Multi-product Cost Volume Profit analysis
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Hi John
Thank you for the lecture!
Thank you for your comment 馃檪
also sir, to calculate the %margin could we use difference in contribution / bug contra instead of revenue?
lso sir, to calculate the %margin could we use difference in contribution / budgetes contribution instead of revenue?
yes we can thank you for all your replies
Dear Sir, thank you for the lecture, to calculate the breakeven when producing in the order of c/s ratio, could we not divide 8000 by the contribution of p and then multiply by the selling price of P?
But that is exactly the same as dividing by the CS ratio (because the CS ratios the contribution divided by the selling price)!!!
oh i see , thank you very much!
its just that i get a slightly different answer
I guess that will only be because of rounding.
Goodnight Sir
where you got the $23400 as breakeven, i thought it was $26402
Sorry – I should have written 26402, not 23400
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Sir i have a question and i feel confused for calculating it, and i wish you will help me to understand this question, it’s not on ur notes, i pick up it while i was working on BPP revision kit .
A company makes and sells a single product. When sales per month are $6.8Million, total costs are $6.56 Million. When sales per month are $ 5.2Million, total costs are $5.44 Millions. There is a step cost increases of $400000 in fixed costs when sales are 6.0 Million, but variable unit costs are constant at all levels of output and sales.
What is breakeven point for sales revenue per month?
A: $6.0 Million
B: There are two breakeven points: $5.64 million and $6.36 million.
C: $5.64 million only.
D: $6.36 million only.
Thank you sir, wish u will help me.
Please ask this sort of question in the Ask the Tutor Forum and not as a comment on a lecture.
Great lectures. Probably not the right place for this question, but I saw the problem Abdulkadir had posted.
If costs are on y axis (dependent) and sales on x – Ignoring all step increases, the slope between two points would be …..??? Percentage sales atributable to variable cost ?
Eg. if change in sales of 10 leads to change of costs of 2( slope of .2), wouldn’t that mean variable costs are .2 ie 20% of sales ?
Sorry, I am little fuzzy on my fourth grade geometry
Sorry,just one more question ; previous setup x- sales y-costs and we have 2 data points.
Wouldn’t C/S ratio be 1- the slope, assuming sales grow faster than costs ( ie slope is between 0 and 1) ?
Again, please ask in the Ask the Tutor Forum and not as a comment on a lecture. (The CS ratio cannot possibly be 1 unless there are no costs at all, which would be ridiculous)
Yeah, I get that. What I meant to write more clearly is 1 MINUS the slope (ie variable costs). These questions are based on the problem Abdulkadir’s posted.
I will ask it in the Forum.
Thank you for the response and for being awesome 馃檪
Hello Sir,
I am confused by the description of the horizontal axis in the PV graph.
You have used “Sales, Revenues”, houldn’t it be rather units?
Most commonly it is sales revenue, rather than units.
The break even you used previously was in units and not in revenue
Break even in unit = fixed cost/ contr p.u
Breakeven can be measured in either units or in revenue – the exam makes it clear which is wanted.
The previous lecture where you calculated the break even revenue , you did used break even units * selling price
Which 250units * $6= $1500
Is this different in any way using this formular here?
I am having a hard time thinking how we should round off the values. If we round off the average C/s ratio in part b) to 3 decimal places it is giving a value in part c) of $26,402. However, if we use the calculator answer or 5 decimal places in part b) like you used in the previous lecture, it is giving a value in part c) of 26,434.
So which way is correct and which way would you suggest for us to do? Also which way is acceptable in the exam?
Thank you so much for the lectures.
You do not lose marks for rounding in the exam, so don’t worry.
Hello Sir,
To calculate Breakeven Revenue, you’ve used the equation Fixed Cost/ Avg CS ratio. Seen the lecture couple of times, but unable to figure out why use avg cs ratio in the equation.
Because there are three products and we are assuming they are being sold in the same ratio. Provided the ratio stays the same then the average CS ratio will also stay the same.
Hi Sir
The C/S ration should be presented as a ratio or a percentage? In F5 December 2012 Question 01 part ‘A’ answers it is represented as a ‘%’
It doesn’t matter. I explain this in the lecture.
Hi Sir,
Would the breakeven contribution per unit be: 41400/21600 = $1.92 p.u.?
Calculating a breakeven contribution per unit would be meaningless.