CVP Modeling problem

Purpose: The purpose of this project is to give you experience creating a multiproduct

profitability analysis that can be used to determine the effects of changing business conditions

on the client's financial position. Your goal will be to use Excel in such a way that any changes

to the assumptions will correctly ripple through the entire profitability analysis. If executed

properly, the client should be able to use this spreadsheet over and over, using different "what

if$"$ assumptions.

Business Description

After taking business classes, Jake, an avid dog$-$lover, decided to start selling unique pet

supplies at trade shows. He has two products:

Product $1$: "Launch$-$it$"-$ a tennis ball thrower that will sell for $$10.$

Product $2$: "Treat$-$time"$-$ an automatic treat dispenser that releases a treat when the dog

places his paw on the pedal. The treat dispenser will sell for $$30$

Costs: Jake has hired an employee to work the trade show booths. The work contract is

$$1,000$ per month plus a commission equal to $10\%$ of revenue. Jake will also spend $$500$ per

month on trade$-$show entry fees. Jake is purchasing the products from a supplier in Mexico.

Launch$-$its cost $$1$ each; Treat$-$times cost $$7$ each. Shipping and handling on the Launch$-$its will

cost $$2$ each; Shipping and handling on the Treat$-$times, which are heavier, will cost $$8$ each.

The shipping and handling costs will be paid by Jake, not the customer.

Assume Jake expects to sell $200$ Launch$-$its and $100$ Treat$-$times during his first month of

operations $($June$).$

Jake's financial goal is to earn an operating income of $$8,000$ per month. He believes volume

may grow at a rate of $5\%$ a month.

Directions

You have been hired by Jake to build a CVP model that will help him understand the impact of business conditions on

his operating income. $($See "Starting File" worksheet.$)$ In your model, all of the original assumptions will be listed on

one area of the spreadsheet $($blue box$).$ All other calculations in the model will reference the assumptions $($blue box$)$

such that if any assumption changes, the effect will ripple through the entire model. To accomplish this goal, you will

use FORMULAs, rather than numbers, in every other cell in the worksheet. In other words, the only place you will type

numbers is the blue assumptions box.

FORMATTING conventions to use throughout project:

$-$ Round all UNITS to the nearest whole unit. Use the "decrease decimals" button on your tool bar rather than the

Rounding function.

$-$ Show all MONETARY amounts as dollars and cents. Round to the nearest cent. $($$x$.$xx$).$ Use the "decrease decimals"

button rather than the rounding function.

$-$ Show all percentages as $\%,$ not as decimals. $($xx$\%,$ not $.$xx$)$

$-$ Right justify all cells $($numbers should be to the right side of the cell, not in the middle or left$)$

$1)$ Complete the assumptions $($blue box$)$ based on the data about Jake's business. Identify and list all variable costs

separately and all fixed costs separately before finding the total for each type of cost$.$

$2)$ Complete the Product Analysis $($yellow boxes$)$ assuming Jake only sells either Product #$1($Launch$-$its$)$ OR Product #$2$

$($Treat $-$times$).$

$3)$ Complete the pro forma CM Income Statement for the month of June $($green box$).$ HINT: On product line income

statements such as this, the fixed costs are only listed in the total column. Make sure you also show the totals for all

other line items. Finally, calculate the overall WACM$\%$ for the company.

$4)$ Calculate the weighted average contribution margin $($WACM$)$ per unit $($in orange box$).$

$5)$ Use the WACM$/$unit to calculate the TOTAL number of units needed to breakeven $($TOTAL column in the first gray

box$).$ THEN, calculate the number of EACH type of product needed to breakeven. Finally, calculate the sales

revenue associated with this volume for EACH product, and then the sales revenue to breakeven in total.

$6)$ Use the WACM$/$unit to calculate the total number of units needed to achieve Jake's target profit $($TOTAL column in

the second gray box$).$ THEN, calculate the number of EACH type of product needed to achieve the target profit.

Finally, calculate sales revenue associated with this volume for EACH product, and then the sales revenue in total.

$7)$ Calculate the Margin of Safety $($MOS$)$ using June sales as the expected sales $($purple box$).$ Calculate the MOS in

terms of sales revenue and as a percentage.

$8)$ Change the name of the worksheet to "Original Assumptions".

$9)$ Make sure you have cleaned up your worksheet using the formatting conventions listed above.

$10)$ Go to the "Advising client" worksheet and follow the directions found there.