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Calculating Target cost based on Cost of unit, rather than selling price

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  • April 28, 2018 at 5:56 pm #449203
    iworkforcia
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    hello sir, i didnt understand that calculation used when you showed it in the lecture video

    Realistic selling price of $50, / Profit of % on cost.

    then you went on to calculate the selling price as 125

    cost=100
    profit=25
    ————-
    S.p=125

    but isnt our target selling price $50?

    April 29, 2018 at 1:11 pm #449286
    John Moffat
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    I did not say that the selling price is 125 !!!

    I was simply doing a cost structure (in the same way as we do in Paper F3) and calculating that for every 125 selling price then the cost would be 100.

    So the target cost is 100/125 x $50.

    You can of course calculate it any way you want to, provided that you end up with a cost that gives the required mark-up as against the selling price.

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