Breakeven analysis : the definitive guide to cost-volume-profit analysis / Michael E. Cafferky, Jon Wentworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cafferky, Michael E., author.

Wentworth, Jon, author.

Series:

Managerial accounting collection.

Managerial Accounting Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Break-even analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Business Expert Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a comprehensive collection of cost-volume-profit applications. Business professionals, entrepreneurs, business professors, and undergraduate and graduate business students will benefit from this onestop how-to book of formulas, explanations, and examples. The user will find a wide range of topics, from calculating basic breakeven, to dealing with multiple products, mixed costs, changing costs, and changing prices.

Contents:

Introduction

Total cost method

Contribution margin method

Target profit method

Cost of goods sold method

Modified breakeven analysis: factoring estimates of demand

Dealing with changes in product using weighted averages

High-low method

Least squares method

Changing costs

Changing prices

Selling price at various volumes

Multiple breakeven points

Net present value method

Quadratic equation

Tax effects on cost-volume-profit

Appendix A. Glossary

Appendix. Limitations and criticisms

Appendix C. A short genealogy of breakeven analysis

Appendix D. Using breakeven thinking to decide whether to start a business

Appendix E. Annuity table

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Part of: 2014 digital library.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-151) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63157-092-7

OCLC:

888510509