For Oriole Company, sales is $1500000, fixed expenses are $330000, and the contribution margin per unit is $60. What is the break-even point?

Answer:

5500

Explanation:

Breakeven quantity are the number of  units produced and sold at which net income is zero.

Breakeven is the ratio of fixed cost to profit per unit of output sold.

Breakeven quantity = fixed cost / price – variable cost per unit

= fixed price / contribution margin per unit

Fixed costs are costs that do not vary with output. e,g, rent, mortgage payments  

Variable costs are costs that vary with production

If a producer decides not to produce any output, there would be no need to hire labour and thus no need to pay hourly wages.  

$330,000 / $60 = 5500

MC Qu. 59 A company's flexible budget for... A company's flexible budget for 16,000 units of production showed sales, $96,000; variable costs, $56,000; and fixed costs, $20,000. The sales expected if the company produces and sells 20,000 units is (Do not round intermediate calculations):

A woman arrives at the clinic for a pregnancy test. The first day of her last menstrual period (LMP) was February 14, 2013. Her expected date of birth (EDB) would be: _________
a) November 21, 2013.
b) October 17, 2013
c) December 9, 2013
d) November 7, 2013

Maverick law office currently orders ink refills 120 units at a time. The firm estimates that carrying cost is 40% of the $10 unit cost and that annual demand is about 480 units per year. The assumptions of the basic EOQ model are thought to apply. For what value of ordering cost would its current action (order quantity) be optimal

An employee on the Internet-facing part of a company's website submits a 20-character phrase in a small textbox on a web form. The website returns a message back to the browser stating Error: Table 'advprofile' entry into column 'Inane' has exceeded number of allowed characters. Error saving database information. Of which of the following is this an example?
A. Resource exhaustion
B. Buffer overflow
C. Improperly configured account Improper error handing

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Actual overhead was composed of the following items:
Indirect materials $ 16,400
Indirect labor 22,000
Utilities 24,500
Depreciation 38,700
Repair expense 13,500
Total $115,100
How much overhead was applied during August by Ranson Productions?
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B. $108,000
C. More information is needed to answer
D. $111,600

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B. no cash has changed hands.
C. the company is transferring them to another period for tax reasons.
D. goods or services have been paid for, but not yet provided to the customer.

Company J must choose between two alternate business expenditures. Expenditure 1 would require a $80,000 cash outlay and Expenditure 2 requires a $60,000 cash outlay.

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Four aspects of empowered performance are understanding variation, deciding what to measure, working correctly with data, and using the resulting information appropriately.

a. True
b. False

ADP reports the following income statement.
AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING INC.
Statement of Consolidated Earnings
For Year Ended June 30, 2019, $ millions
Total revenues $14,175.2
Operating expenses 7,145.9
Systems development and programming costs 636.3
Depreciation and amortization 304.4
Total cost of revenues 8,086.6
Selling, general, and administrative expenses 3,064.2
Interest expense 129.9
Total expenses 11,280.7
Other income expense, net 111.1
Earnings before income taxes 3,005.6
Provision for income taxes 712.8
Net earnings $ 2,292.8
Forecast ADP’s 2020 income statement assuming the following income statement relations. All percentages (other than total revenue growth and provision for income taxes) are based on historic percent of total revenues.
Total revenues growth 13%
Depreciation and amortization $460.5 million
Interest expense No change
Other (income) expense, net No change
Income tax rate 25%
Round your answers to one decimal place.

Typical Request and Response Messages
The purpose of many business messages is to make a request or to reply to previously received communication. Familiarize yourself with the organization of these messages so you can communicate your purpose and achieve a positive outcome.
Read the scenario:
The office manager asks you for advice on how to structure a request message with numerous questions.
What advice would you give?
A. Give an approximate date for the deadline in the body.
B. Place the deadline in the opening.
C. Set an end date to take action in the closing.
Read the following request message:
To: Customer Support
From: Helen Martin
Subject: Warranty Information for Netbook Computer
Dear Customer Service,
I need this information by noon tomorrow at the latest. My team has an important presentation to give, and my netbook crashed while we were working on the presentation. I can’t find the warranty information anywhere. So I have a few questions.
Where is my warranty information? How long does it normally take to repair these machines? Do I have to mail the netbook to you, or can I bring it to your local repair shop?
Will you please answer these questions in a timely manner? Thank you in advance for your help.
Regards,
Helen Martin
1. Where do I find my warranty information?
Reason A: 2. How long does the average netbook repair take?
3. Do I need to mail in my netbook for repairs or bring it to your local repair shop?
Revision B: Where is my warranty information? How long does the average repair take? Do I have to mail in my netbook?
Revision C:
Where do I find the information?
How long does it take?
Can I take it to my local shop?
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A. Revision B
B. Revision C
C. Revision A
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Complete the following sentence with the dropdown menu.
Direct response messages might _______?
A. include long, flowery descriptions
B. use the "me" view
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Read the scenario, and then answer the question.
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a) true
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a. True
b. False

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Transactions
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3. Purchase of Treasury Stock
4. Merchandise Sales
5. Issuance of a long-term note payable
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The papilla supplies nourishment to the

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