The annual planning process at Century Office Systems, Inc. decided to restructure its product-marketing team into two separate groups: (1) Corporate Office Systems and (2) Home Office Systems Individuals assigned Angela Blake responsibility for the Home Office Systems group, which would market the company's word-processing hardware and software for home and office-at-home use Her marketing plan, which included a sales forecast for next year of $40 million, was the result of detailed market analysis and negotiations with individuals both inside and outside the company Under the new organizational structure, the Home Office Systems group would be charged with 50 percent of the budgeted sales force expenditure. The sales director's budget for salaries and fringe benefits of the sales force and non-commission selling costs for both the Corporate and Home Office Systems groups were $10 million. The advertising and promotion budget contained three elements trade magazines advertising, cooperative newspaper advertising with Century Office Systems, Inc. dealers, and sales promotion materials including product brochures, technical manuals, catalogs, and point-of-purchase displays. Trade magazine ads and sales promotion materials were to be developed by the company's advertising and public relations agency. Production and media placement costs were budgeted at S500,000 Cooperative advertising copy for both newspaper and radio use had budgeted production costs of $500,000 Century Office Systems, Inc.'s, cooperative advertising allowance policy stated that the company would allocate 10 percent of company sales to dealers to promote its office systems Dealers always used their complete cooperative advertising allowances Meetings with manufacturing and operations personnel indicated that the direct costs of material and labor and direct factory overhead to produce the Home Office System product line represented 50 percent of sales. The accounting department would assign $500,000 in indirect manufacturing overhead (for example, depreciation, maintenance) to the product line and $300,000 for administrative overhead (clerical, telephone, office space, and so forth). Freight for the product line would average 10 percent of sales Blake's staff consisted of two product managers and a marketing assistant Salaries and fringe benefits for Ms. Blake and her staff was $200,000 per year, At what level of dollar sales will the Home Office Systems group break even? Approximately $23.3 million Approximately $26.6 million O Approximately $13,3 million O Detective Hercule Poirot. just divide Fixed costs by Contribution Margin. voil you get approximately 565.3 million Watch out Shello