What is this companys magnitude of operating leverage do


1. Wu Company incurred $68,200 of fixed cost and $80,600 of variable cost when 2,600 units of product were made and sold.
If the company's volume doubles, the total cost per unit will:

o stay the same.
o increase but will not double.
o double as well.
o decrease.

2. Wu Company incurred $103,600 of fixed cost and $118,400 of variable cost when 3,200 units of product were made and sold.
If the company's volume increases to 3,700 units, the total cost per unit will be:

o $65.
o $60.
o $28.
o $32.

3. Pickard Company pays its sales staff a base salary of $5,400 a month plus a $2.60 commission for each product sold. If a salesperson sells 560 units of product in January, the employee would be paid:

o $3,944
o $1,456
o $6,856
o $5,400

4. For the last two years BRC Company had net income as follows:


2012

2013

Net income

$82,000

$102,000

What was the percentage change in income from 2012 to 2013? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
o 19.61% increase
o 24.39% decrease
o 24.39% increase
o 19.61% decrease

5. The following income statement is provided for Ramirez Company in 2013:

  Sales revenue (2,100 units × $19.60 per unit)

$41,160

  Cost of goods sold (variable; 2,100 units × $7.60 per unit)

(15,960)

  Cost of goods sold (fixed)

(3,600)

  Gross margin

21,600

  Administrative salaries

(5,600)

  Depreciation

(3,600)

  Supplies (2,100 units × $1.60 per unit)

(3,360)

  Net income

$9,040

What amount was the company's contribution margin? (Do not round intermediate calculations.)

o $21,600
o $21,840
o $25,200
o $9,040


6. The following information is provided for Southall Company:

  Sales revenue

$289,000

  Variable manufacturing costs

98,000

  Fixed manufacturing costs

62,000

  Variable selling and administrative costs

43,000

  Fixed selling and administrative costs

38,000

What is this company's contribution margin?
o $48,000
o $86,000
o $148,000
o $129,000

7. The following income statement is provided for Vargas, Inc.

  Sales revenue (2,000 units × $19.50 per unit)

$

39,000

  Cost of goods sold (variable; 2,000 units × $9.50 per unit)


(19,000)

  Cost of goods sold (fixed)


(3,500)

  Gross margin


16,500

  Administrative salaries


(5,500)

  Depreciation


(4,500)

  Supplies (2,000 units × $1.50 per unit)


(3,000)

  Net income

$

3,500

What is this company's magnitude of operating leverage? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your final answer to 2 decimal places.)

o 0.26
o 0.21
o 4.71
o 4.86

8. The following income statement is provided for Grant, Inc.

  Sales revenue (3,500 @ $14.00 per unit)

$49,000

  Variable costs (3,500 @ $6.00 per unit)

21,000

  Fixed costs

11,400

  Net income

$16,600

What is this company's magnitude of operating leverage? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

o 2.95
o 2.33
o 1.27
o 1.69

9. The magnitude of operating leverage for Forbes Corporation is 2.1 when sales are $130,000 and net income is $17,000. If sales increase by 5%, what is net income expected to be?

o $17,850
o $21,000
o $16,850
o $18,785

10. The magnitude of operating leverage for Blue Ridge Corporation is 3.3 when sales are $210,000 and net income is $37,000. If sales decrease by 6%, net income is expected to decrease by what amount?

o $7,326
o $2,220
o $1,245
o $3,900

11. Wham Company sells electronic squirrel repellants for $47. Variable costs are 38% of sales and total fixed costs are $37,000. What is the firm's magnitude of operating leverage if 1,700 units are sold?(Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

o 3.95
o 2.42
o 1.63
o None of these

12. What are the expected average quarterly costs of running a consulting practice if fixed costs are expected to be $5,600 a month and variable costs are expected to be $90 per client for each quarter? Expected number of clients for the year are(Do not round intermediate calculations.):

Jan-March

April-June

July-Sep

Oct-Dec

140

170

190

130

o $30,975
o $25,875
o $14,175
o $31,275

13. Yankee Tours provide seven-day guided tours along the New England coast. The company pays its guides a total of $400,000 per year. The average cost of supplies, lodging and food per customer is $400. The company expects a total of 2,500 customers during the period January - June, and a total of 7,500 customers from July through December. Yankee wants to earn $100 income per customer. For promotional reasons the company desires to charge the same price throughout the year. Based on this information, what is the correct price per customer?(Round your answer to the nearest dollar amount.)

o $440
o $580
o $540
o $500

14. Production in 2013 for California Manufacturing, a producer of high security bank vaults, was at its highest point in the month of June when 35 units were produced at a total cost of $550,000. The lowest point in production was in January when only 10 units were produced at a cost of $336,000. The company is preparing a budget for 2013 and needs to project expected fixed cost for the budget year. Using the high/low method, the projected amount of fixed cost per month is:

o $214,000
o $250,400
o $240,400
o $194,000

15. The following income statements are provided for Li Company's last two years of operation:

 

2012

2013

  Number of units produced and sold

4,600

4,200

  Sales revenue

$71,760

$65,520

  Cost of goods sold

39,760

36,460

  Gross margin

32,000

29,060

  General, selling and administrative expenses

18,820

17,540

  Net income

$13,180

$11,520

Assuming that cost behavior did not change over the two year period, what is the amount of the company's variable cost of goods sold per unit? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

o $10.50 per unit
o $47.10 per unit
o $8.25 per unit
o None of these

16. The following income statements are provided for Li Company's last two years of operation:

 

2012

2013

  Number of units produced and sold

3,800

3,000

  Sales revenue

$55,860

$44,100

  Cost of goods sold

27,000

23,000

  Gross margin

28,860

21,100

  General, selling and administrative expenses

8,520

7,400

  Net income

$20,340

$13,700

Assuming that cost behavior did not change over the two year period, what is the annual amount of the company's fixed manufacturing overhead?

o $8,000
o $16,000
o $17,600
o None of these

17. The following income statements are provided for Li Company's last two years of operation:

 

2012

2013

  Number of units produced and sold

4,200

3,800

  Sales revenue

$63,840

$57,760

  Cost of goods sold

43,640

39,540

  Gross margin

20,200

18,220

  General, selling and administrative expenses

13,780

12,820

  Net income

$6,420

$5,400

Assuming that cost behavior did not change over the two year period, what is the company's annual fixed general, selling, and administrative cost? (Do not round intermediate calculations.)

o $13,780
o $3,700
o $3,200
o $12,820

18. The following income statements are provided for Li Company's last two years of operation:

 

2012

2013

  Number of units produced and sold

3,600

3,200

  Sales revenue

$57,600

$51,200

  Cost of goods sold

43,000

39,000

  Gross margin

14,600

12,200

  General, selling and administrative expenses

7,420

6,940

  Net income

$7,180

$5,260

Assuming that cost behavior did not change over the two year period, what is Li Company's contribution margin in 2013?

o $41,160
o $15,360
o $18,460
o $14,860

19. Based on the following operating data, the operating leverage is(Round your answer to 2 decimal places.):

 Sales

$ 1,250,000

 Variable costs

350,000

 Contribution margin

900,000

 Fixed costs

152,000

 Income from operations

$ 748,000

o 0.39
o 1.67
o 1.39
o 1.20

20. Frazier Company sells women's ski jackets. The average sales price is $283 and the variable cost per jacket is $133. Fixed Costs are $1,258,000. If Frazier sells 15,800 jackets, the contribution margin will be:

o $2,370,000
o $3,213,400
o $1,112,000
o $989,400

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