Margin of Safety

Comer Company produces and sells strings of colorful indoor/outdoor lights for holiday display to retailers for $9.48 per string. The variable costs per string are as follows:

Direct materials	$1.87
Direct labor	1.70
Variable factory overhead	0.57
Variable selling expense	0.42

Fixed manufacturing cost totals $307,500 per year. Administrative cost (all fixed) totals $256,332. Comer expects to sell 222,600 strings of light next year.

3. Calculate the margin of safety in dollars. $