COST-VOLUME PROFIT (CVP) ANALYSIS This is a technique used for planning short-term run profits by finding the relationship between profits and factors that influence profits. The following factors are taken to be influencing profits:- • Selling price • Variable cost of production • Fixed costs • Activity level (production and sales units) Profit planning is based on break-even analysis and can be worked out using either; a) Algebraic method b) Contribution method c) Break-even
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big role‚ but For-profit prisons take the cake. For-profit prisons‚ also referred to as private prisons‚ are third-party prisons that are contracted by a government agency. Private prisons originally began to exist in a variety of forms in the 1800’s‚ however they largely disappeared from the 1920’s to the 1980’s. For-profit prisons in their current form arrived after the mass incarceration following the War on Drugs. As of 2013 133‚000 inmates were incarcerated in for-profit facilities‚ which
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Many of you have heard of a non profit organizations but do you really know what it is? The definition of a non profit organization is an organization that uses its surplus revenues to further achieve its purpose or mission‚ rather than distributing its surplus income to the organization’s shareholders as a profit. This means that instead of the organization’s profit going into their pocket it goes towards the benefit of the general public for the cause that the organization has dedicated itself
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CHAPTER 14: DISTRIBUTIONS TO SHAREHOLDERS: DIVIDENDS AND SHARE REPURCHASES 1. The optimal distribution policy strikes that balance between current dividends and capital gains that maximizes the firm’s stock price. a. True b. False ANSWER: True 2. Other things held constant‚ the higher a firm’s target payout ratio‚ the higher its expected growth rate should be. a. True b. False ANSWER: False RATIONALE: The higher the payout ratio‚ the less of its earnings the firm reinvests in the business
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Global and China Industrial Ethernet Switches Industry 2013 Market Research Report The report firstly introduced Industrial Ethernet Switches basic information included Industrial Ethernet Switches definition classification application industry chain structure industry overview; international market analysis‚ China domestic market analysis‚ Macroeconomic environment and economic situation analysis and influence‚ Industrial Ethernet Switches industry policy and plan‚ Industrial Ethernet Switches
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million of its available cash to repay £200 million of its long-term debt. This event would not affect the balance sheet. In early 2009‚ General Electric (GE) had a book value of equity of $105 billion‚ 10.5 billion shares outstanding‚ and a market price of $10.80 per share. GE also had cash of $48 billion‚ and total debt of $524 billion. Three
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Global and China Rare Earth Permanent Magnet Industry 2013 Market Research Report The report firstly introduced Rare Earth Permanent Magnet basic information included Rare Earth Permanent Magnet definition classification application industry chain structure industry overview; international market analysis‚ China domestic market analysis‚ Macroeconomic environment and economic situation analysis and influence‚ Rare Earth Permanent Magnet industry policy and plan‚ Rare Earth Permanent Magnet product
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is catering the demand of its product W within a local community. However the Company wishes to analyse the implications if a decision is made in respect of launching product W at the state level. As a consulting firm‚ we will perform a cost-volume-profit [CVP] analysis whereby we will examine where the Company stands now and where the Company intends to be. CVP analysis is extension of break-even analysis – a situation where a business earns no income and incurs no loss. From the analysis we shall
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CHAPTER 14 DISTRIBUTIONS TO SHAREHOLDERS: DIVIDENDS AND SHARE REPURCHASES (Difficulty: E = Easy‚ M = Medium‚ and T = Tough) Multiple Choice: Conceptual Easy: Dividends versus capital gains Answer: d Diff: E [i]. Myron Gordon and John Lintner believe that the required return on equity increases as the dividend payout ratio is decreased. Their argument is based on the assumption that a. Investors are indifferent between dividends and capital gains. b. Investors
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Question 2 Cost Volume Profit Analysis 1.0 Introduction According to Jon Scheumann “a successful organizations need a culture that is attuned to cost management and pay attention to cost structure” From that statement manager must pay attention and carefully thinking when do decision making to the cost. For example when manager want to target the profit. They must take every cost that related in production such as variable cost and fix costs. Cost Volume profit analysis is used in decisions
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