A used concrete pumping truck can be purchased for $125,000. The operation costs are expected to be $65,000 the first year and increase 5% each year thereafter. As a result of the purchase, the company will see an increase in income of $100,000 the first year and 5% more each subsequent year. The company uses straight-line depreciation. The truck will have a useful life of five (5) years and no salvage value. Management would like to see a 10% return on any investment. The company's tax rate is 28%.
SCENARIO: A can manufacturing company requested you to provide data for their decision making. The unit prices of the can vary but an average selling price of $0.55 cents and average cost of $0.45 cents is estimated.
The monthly fixed costs are:
Rent-SI .600
Wages - $4.000
Miscellaneous fixed expenses - $500
Marketing team observed that factory can safely increase their unit selling price to S0.60 cents. The new break even units for the sales based on new contribution margin will be:
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