Listed below are nine technical accounting terms:
- Cost volume profit analysis
- contribution margin ratio
- Variable cost
- Break even point
- Activity Base
- Cost driver
- Margin of safety
- High low method
- contribution margin
Each of the following statements may (or may not) describe one of these technical terms.
(a) The amount by which sales revenue exceeds total variable cost expressed as a percentage of sales.
(b) The amount by which sales volume exceeds the break-evenpoint.
(c) The study of financial statements by a potential investor or creditor as a means of evaluating the profitability and solvency of a business.
(d) A type of activity that has a causal effect in the occurrence of a particular cost.
(e) The level of sales at which revenue equals operating expenses.
(f) A cost that responds to changes in sales volume by less than aproportionate amount.
(g) A mathematical technique used to determine the fixed and variable elements of a mixed or semi-variable cost.