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Running a Profitable Business: Calculating Breakeven

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Overview

How do you know when you'll make a profit? Jim and Kay Stice explain the ins and outs of breakeven analysis and cost-volume-profit analysis, and what it means for your business.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • The basics of breakeven analysis
1. Importance of Analysis
  • Importance of breakeven analysis
  • Cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis
2. Types of Costs
  • When variable costs become fixed costs
  • Breaking down fixed and variable costs
  • Fixed and variable cost examples
  • Pricing a service to cover costs
3. Contribution Margin and the CVP Equation
  • Identifying high contribution margins
  • Contribution margin and profitability
  • Calculate a company's breakeven point
  • McDonald's breakeven point
4. The Breakeven Equation
  • When to conduct breakeven analysis
  • Breakeven equation and covering costs
  • Breakeven equations for an airline
  • Breakeven analysis for multiple products
5. Computing Target Net Income
  • Importance of total contribution margin
  • How to forecast a target profit
  • Calculate McDonald's target profit
6. Sensitivity Analysis
  • Analyzing a business before making changes
  • What-if analysis for multiple scenarios
  • Lessons for running a profitable company
Conclusion
  • Risks and rewards of fixed costs

Taught by

Jim Stice and Kay Stice

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