Sport Ready produces sport socks. The company has fixed expenses of $110,000 and variable expenses of $1.10 per package. Each package sells for $2.20. The number of packages Sport Ready needed to sell to earn a $24,000 operating income was 121,819 packages (rounded). If Sport Ready can decrease its variable costs to $1.00 per package by increasing its fixed costs to $125,000, how many packages will it have to sell to generate $24,000 of operating income? Is this more or less than before? Why? Review Only LOADING... Click the icon to see the Worked Solution. Begin by identifying the formula to compute the sales in units at various levels of operating income using the contribution margin approach. ( Fixed expenses + Operating income ) / Contribution margin per unit = Sales in units (Round your answer up to the nearest whole unit.) Sport Ready will have to sell 124,167 packages to generate $24,000 of operating income. Is this more or less than before? Why? Sport Ready would have to sell 2,348 more packages of socks to earn $24,000 of operating income. The increase in fixed costs was not completely offset by the decrease in variable costs at the prior target profit volume of sales. Therefore, Sport Ready will need to sell more units in order to achieve its target profit level.

Acompany's income statement showed the following: net income, $145,000 and depreciation expense, $36,300. an examination of the company's current assets and current liabilities showed the following changes as a result of operating activities: accounts receivable decreased $11,500; merchandise inventory increased $22,200; and accounts payable increased $5,500. calculate the net cash provided or used by operating activities. $209,500 $139,000 $176,100 $186,500 $142,100

Recently, verizon wireless ran a pricing trial in order to estimate the elasticity of demand for its services. the manager selected three states that were representative of its entire service area and increased prices by 5 percent to customers in those areas. one week later, the number of customers enrolled in verizon's cellular plans declined 4 percent in those states, while enrollments in states where prices were not increased remained flat. the manager used this information to estimate the own-price elasticity of demand and, based on her findings, immediately increased prices in all market areas by 5 percent in an attempt to boost the company's 2016 annual revenues. one year later, the manager was perplexed because verizon's 2016 annual revenues were 10 percent lower than those in 2015"the price increase apparently led to a reduction in the company's revenues. did the manager make an error? yes - the one-week measures show demand is inelastic, so a price increase will decrease revenues. yes - the one-week measures show demand is elastic, so a price increase will reduce revenues. yes - cell phone elasticity is likely much larger in the long-run than the short-run. no - the cell phone market must have changed between 2011 and 2012 for this price increase to lower revenues.

The demand curve determines equilibrium price in a market. is a graphical representation of the relationship between price and quantity demanded. depicts the relationship between production costs and output. is a graphical representation of the relationship between price and quantity supplied.