Suppose Parks Canada prepared the following budget for one of its national parks for 2010: Revenue from

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Suppose Parks Canada prepared the following budget for one of its national parks for 2010: 

Revenue from fees...............$5,000,000 

Variable costs (miscellaneous)..........500,000 

Contribution margin................4,500,000 

Fixed costs (miscellaneous)........4,500,000 

Operating income..................$ 0 

The fees were based on an average of 50,000 vehicle-admission-days (vehicles multiplied by number of days in park) per week for the 20- week session, multiplied by average entry and other fees of $10 per vehicle-admission-day. 

The season was booming for the first four weeks. However, there were major forest fires during the fifth week. A large percentage of the park was scarred by the fires. As a result, the number of visitors dropped sharply during the remainder of the season. 

Total revenue fell $1 million short of the original budget. Moreover, extra firefighters had to be hired at a cost of $360,000. The latter was regarded as a fixed cost. 

Prepare a columnar summary of performance, showing the original (static) budget, sales-volume variances, flexible budget, flexible-budget variances, and actual results.

Contribution Margin
Contribution margin is an important element of cost volume profit analysis that managers carry out to assess the maximum number of units that are required to be at the breakeven point. Contribution margin is the profit before fixed cost and taxes...
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Management Accounting

ISBN: 978-0132570848

6th Canadian edition

Authors: Charles T. Horngren, Gary L. Sundem, William O. Stratton, Phillip Beaulieu

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