Sunday 20 May 2012

Pizza Pizazz is a local restaurant. Price and cost information follows:


Pizza Pizazz is a local restaurant. Price and cost information follows:
 




  Price per pizza
$
13.11  

  Variable cost per pizza



  Ingredients

2.21  

  Direct labor

1.19  

  Overhead (box, etc.)

0.22  

  Fixed cost per month
$
3,036.80  




Requirement 1:
Determine Pizza Pizazz’s break-even point in units and sales dollars. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and final answers to the nearest whole number. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)
 



  Break-even units
320 correct
 pizzas
  Break-even sales dollars
$ 4,195  correct




 
Explanation:
 Contribution margin
=
 Sales price – Variable costs

=
 $13.11 – $3.62

=
 $9.49
 
 Break-even units
=
 Fixed cost/CM per unit

=
 $3,036.80/$9.49

=
 320 pizzas
 
 Break-even sales dollars = 320 × $13.11 = $4,195
Requirement 2:
Determine the restaurant’s margin of safety if it currently sells 380 pizzas per month. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and final answer to the nearest whole number. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)
 
  Margin of safety
$ 787 correct  
Explanation:
 
 Margin of safety
=
 Current sales – Break-even sales

=
 (380 – 320)$13.11

=
 60 units × $13.11

=
 $787
Requirement 3:
Determine the number of pizzas that Pizazz must sell to generate $1,600 in profit. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and final answer up to next whole number.)

  Target sales
489 correct units 
Explanation:
 Target sales
=
 (Fixed cost + Target profit)/CM per unit

=
 ($3,036.80 + $1,600)/$9.49

=
 489 units (rounded up from 488.60)

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