A Product Is Sold for $45 and Has Variable Costs

question 50

Essay

A product is sold for $45 and has variable costs of $33 per unit. The total fixed costs for the firm are $180,600. If the firm desires to earn a pretax income of $77,400, how many units must be sold?

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Definitions:

Perpetual LIFO

A method of inventory valuation where the last items added to inventory are considered the first items sold, continuously updated in real-time.

Purchases and Sales

This involves transactions related to buying (purchases) and selling (sales) goods or services, critical to determining a business's revenue and inventory levels.

LIFO Perpetual

A perpetual inventory system method that assumes the last items added to inventory are the first ones sold, under the Last-In, First-Out principle.

Inventory Value

The total cost of all the items held by a company for resale or production purposes, calculated at a specific point in time.