Health-Temp Company is a placement agency for temporary nurses. It serves hospitals and clinics throughout the metropolitan area. Health-Temp Company believes it will place temporary nurses for a total of 23,500 hours next year. Health-Temp charges the hospitals and clinics $130 per hour and has variable costs of $84.40 per hour (this includes the payment to the nurse). Total fixed costs equal $465,032.

 

Required:

1. Calculate the contribution margin per unit and the contribution margin ratio (express the ratio as a decimal rather than a percentage). If required, round your answers to two decimal places.

Contribution margin per unit	$
Contribution margin ratio

2. Calculate the sales revenue needed to break even. $

3. Calculate the sales revenue needed to achieve a target profit of $109,120. $

4. What if Health-Temp had target operating income (profit) of $133,760? Would sales revenue be larger or smaller than the one calculated in Requirement 3?

By how much? $