CHAPTER ONE/INTRODUCTION
Background to the study
Cost volume profit analysis is a methodical way to look at how changes in volume, or production, affect overall savings, revenue, expenses, and net profit. Cost volume profit analysis, which serves as a model for these connections, simplifies the actual conditions that a corporation would encounter, unlike models, which are an abstraction of reality. A variety of underlying assumptions and restrictions are placed on cost-volume-profit analysis.
Profit is a key indicator of a company’s success in a free market economy since it serves as a guide for wise resource allocation. Understanding how different variables impact profit is a crucial step in financial planning and decision-making. Making. Cost volume profit analysis refers to the analytical methods used to investigate how profit responds to changes in volume, price, and other variables (CVP). However. It should be emphasized that budgets and other forecasts are used in formal profit planning and management. Cost volume profit analysis is a good place to start when figuring out how much must be sold to break even and how much must be sold to reach the company’s profit target.
Consequently, the “concealed in efficiency” that was first stated by Outer and Brown (1984) in order to thrive in the modern economic environment must be found and standards established.
To guarantee even a small profit margin, strict supervision must be instituted and forecasts must be prepared. The cost variations are managed efficiently and effectively.
The development and survival of an organization will mostly depend on price, production (volume), and eventually profit. The activity (volume saving) point at which overall revenues and total costs are equal is known as the break-even point. It serves no purpose less or more. Only in cases when decisions about pricing, volume, and cost can be divided into two categories is the break-even point possible. Cost volume analysis is a tool used to evaluate the effectiveness of the firm’s short-term profit planning. It is an analytical approach used to examine how profit behaves in response to changes in volume, cost, and price.
An application of marginal costing, cost volume profit analysis, also known as break-even analysis, tries to investigate the link between cost volume and profit at various activity levels. It may be a valuable tool for short-term planning and decision-making. For known cost patterns and linkages to continue to hold true with bigger changes in activity and over the long term existing cost structure of the amount of fixed cost and marginal, it is more pertinent when the proposed changes in activity are relatively minor. Cost volume profit analysis is unlikely to provide valuable information since cost per unit is likely to fluctuate.
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