Contribution margin, break$-$even sales, cost$-$volume$-$profit chart, margin of safety, and operating leverage

Belmain Co$.$ expects to maintain the same inventories at the end of $20Y7$ as at the beginning of the year. The total of all production costs for the year is

therefore assumed to be equal to the cost of goods sold. With this in mind, the various department heads were asked to submit estimates of the costs for their

departments during the year. A summary report of these estimates is as follows: