Menlo Company distributes a single product. The companys sales and expenses for last month follow:

	Total			Per Unit
Sales	$	616,000		$	40
Variable expenses		431,200			28
Contribution margin		184,800		$	12
Fixed expenses		152,400
Net operating income	$	32,400

Required:

1. What is the monthly break-even point in unit sales and in dollar sales?

2. Without resorting to computations, what is the total contribution margin at the break-even point?

3-a. How many units would have to be sold each month to attain a target profit of $68,400?

3-b. Verify your answer by preparing a contribution format income statement at the target sales level.

4. Refer to the original data. Compute the company's margin of safety in both dollar and percentage terms.

5. What is the companys CM ratio? If sales increase by $73,000 per month and there is no change in fixed expenses, by how much would you expect monthly net operating income to increase?

Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below.

• Req 1

What is the monthly break-even point in unit sales and in dollar sales?

Break-even point in unit sales		units
Break-even point in dollar sales

• Req 2

Without resorting to computations, what is the total contribution margin at the break-even point?

Total contribution margin

• Req 3A

How many units would have to be sold each month to attain a target profit of $68,400?

Units sales needed to attain target profit

.Req 3B

Verify your answer by preparing a contribution format income statement at the target sales level.

Menlo Company
Contribution Income Statement
	Total	Per Unit

• Req 4

Refer to the original data. Compute the company's margin of safety in both dollar and percentage terms. (Round your percentage answer to 2 decimal places (i.e. 0.1234 should be entered as 12.34).)

	Dollars	Percentage
Margin of safety			%

• Req 5

What is the companys CM ratio? If sales increase by $73,000 per month and there is no change in fixed expenses, by how much would you expect monthly net operating income to increase?

CM ratio		%
Net operating income increases by