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Break-Even Analysis

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Have you ever wanted to go into business and earn zero profit?

Many businesss owners do. Getting to the point at which no profit is made is called the break-even point.

Getting to this point is important, because it's where the company can pay all of its costs and continue to exist without burning through savings.

Once a firm has reached the break-even point, any improvement will push the company into profitability.

So how do we figure out what this point is?

We know it's when our costs are equal to our profits. Of course, we can break our costs into two parts: fixed and variable.

So we can say that our fixed costs plus our variable costs are equal to our profits.

Question Charlie LLC, the ancient scissor designer, is trying to figure out how to reach break-even.

The firm sells each item for $12.00. It has $702.00 in fixed costs, and it expects to sell 100.29 units.

What is the variable cost necessary to break even?
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