Sheffield Company has sales of $509000, variable costs of $429000, and fixed costs of $23000. Ivanhoe Company has sales of $509000, variable costs of $203000, and fixed costs of $198900. Ivanhoe’s margin of safety ratio is
margin of safety = | Actual sales -BEP sales | |||||
Break even sales= | fixed cost/contribution margin ratio | |||||
contribution = | Sales - variable cost | |||||
509000-203000 | ||||||
306000 | ||||||
Contribution margin ratio= | contribution /sales | |||||
306000/509000 | ||||||
60.118% | ||||||
Break even sales= | 198900/15.717% | |||||
330850 | ||||||
Margin of safety= | 509,000-330850 | |||||
178150 | ||||||
Margin of safety ratio= | margin of safety/actual sales | |||||
178150/509000 | ||||||
35.00% | answer | |||||
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