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    Nov 20, 2012, 03:02 PM
    Cost behavior and operating income
    Any help would be very much appreciated!
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    Thermal Tent, Inc. is a newly organized manufacturing business that plans to manufacture and sell 50,000 units per year of a new product. The following estimates have been made of the company's costs and expenses (other than income taxes):

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    a.

    What should the company establish as the sales price per unit if it sets a target of earning an operating income of $260,000 by producing and selling 50,000 units during the first year of operations? (Hint: First compute the required contribution margin per unit.) (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

    Sales price per unit $_______

    b.

    At the unit sales price computed in part a, how many units must the company produce and sell to break even? (Assume all units produced are sold.)

    Break-even sales volume _______units

    c.

    What will be the margin of safety (in dollars) if the company produces and sells 50,000 units at the sales price computed in part a? Using the margin of safety, compute operating income at 50,000 units.
    (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

    Operating income $_____

    d.

    Assume that the marketing manager thinks that the price of this product must be no higher than $94 to ensure market penetration. Will setting the sales price at $94 enable Thermal Tent to break even, given the plans to manufacture and sell 50,000 units?
    ____Yes
    ____No
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    Nov 20, 2012, 03:08 PM
    That did not format correctly. Here it is as an image.
    Thanks again!
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