Break Even Analysis
Break Even Analysis
Break Even Analysis
LOSS
Slide 5
PROFIT AND LOSS
a. Differentiate profit from loss. (ABM_BM11BS-Ii-6)
b. Illustrate how profit is obtained and how to avoid loss in a given
transaction (ABM_BM11BS-Ii-7)
c. Define break-even; illustrate how to determine break-even point
(ABM_BM11BS-Ij-8)
• Put the words with its corresponding amount into its proper place in the
financial statement. Make the calculation to see if the company incurred
Profit or Loss.
• Net Profit: 35,500 Other Income: 2,300
• Operating Profit: 34,400 Sales: 117,000
• Cost of Sales: 59,000 Operating Expenses: 23,600
• Other Expenses:1,200 Gross Margin/Profit: 58,000
• The number of units that a business must sell at a given price to cover its
costs
• Once the variable costs are covered – the rest of the “gross profit” goes
to pay off the fixed costs
• Gross profit is the amount the company makes on every unit sold (selling
price – purchase price)
BREAK-EVEN ANALYSIS
• A teddy-bear manufacturing company sells its
bears to retailers for an average price of 180.
The variable costs are 100 per bear. The
company’s fixed costs are 150 000. How many
bears need to be sold before the teddy-bear
manufacturer turns a profit?
BREAK-EVEN ANALYSIS
• BREAK EVEN POINT (BEP) = fixed costs / gross
profit (P-V)
• BEP = 150 000 / (180-100)
• BEP = 150 000 / 80
• BEP = 1875
200 000
Value
100 000
1875
# of Units
• Another example:
- A new pizza place has opened up across the
street from BCI. Each piece of pizza costs
them 0.75 of materials to make. The business
paid 50 000 for ovens, the building, advertising
and other fixed costs. They expect to sell
roughly 100,000 pieces of pizza in their first
year of operation.
- Based on their estimates,
- how much should they
- charge in order to make
- money back in the first year?
- FC= 50000, x=100,000 v=0.75
- X=FC/P-V, Px-Vx=FC; P=(FC+Vx)/x = (50,000+75000)/100000
- = 1.25
BREAK EVEN ANALYSIS
• The company must decide if the break-even point is realistic or
not.
• If not there are many things that can be done
• Reduce the Variable Costs
• Increase the Price
• Decrease the selling price to
increase the demand
• Increase the fixed costs in order
to stimulate demand
• Increase Advertising
Economies of Scale
The more products a company makes, the lower the cost of
product of each item
DISECONOMIES OF SCALE
• Remember: Getting bigger isn’t always better
• At some point – a company becomes too big in order to run
efficiently
• Have a hard time responding to the demands of their consumers &
controlling the quality of the product (American Auto Industry)
BREAK-EVEN ASSIGNMENT
1. Find the break-even point in units and in peso given that
the unit price of a certain commodity is 15.00; variable cost,
5.00 and total fixed cost, 12,000.00