AFM102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Contribution Margin, Earnings Before Interest And Taxes, Income Statement

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The first step of preparing an analyses is looking at the contribution income statement. It emphasizes that behavior of costs and is helpful for the manager to judge the impact of profits of changes in selling price, cost, volume. Sales variable expenses = contribution margin fixed expenses = operating income/loss. The statement reports sales, variable expenses and contribution margin on both a per unit basis and a total basis. Contribution margin is the amount remaining from sales after variable expenses have been deducted. It is the amount available to cover fixed expenses then to provide profits for the period. Break-even point when level of sales at which profit = zero. Once the break-even point is reached, operating income will increase by the unit contribution margin for each additional unit sold. To estimate profit at any sales level above the break-even point, multiply the. Number of units sold in excess of the break even point by the unit.

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