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MS Excel Performing What‐If Analyses Analyses
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Understanding Cost‐Volume‐Profit Relationships
- Cost‐volume‐profit (CVP) analysis expresses the
relationship between a company’s expenses, its volume
- f business and the resulting profit or net income
- f business, and the resulting profit or net income
- Variable expenses change in proportion to the amount
- f business a company does
- A fixed expense is an expense that must be paid
regardless of sales volume
- A variable expense is part variable and part fixed
- The point where revenue equals expenses is called the
break‐even point
– Break‐even analysis
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