Directions for the following four questions:
Answer the following questions based on the information given below.
The following table shows the break-up of actual costs incurred by a company in last five years (year 2002 to year 2006) to produce a particular product.
The production capacity of the company is 2000 units. The selling price for the year 2006 was Rs. 125 per unit. Some costs change almost in direct proportion to the change in volume of production, while others do not follow any obvious pattern of change with respect to the volume of production and hence are considered fixed. Using the information provided for the year 2006 as the basis for projecting the figures for the year 2007, answer the following questions:
What is the minimum number of units that the company needs to produce and sell to avoid any loss?
Fixed costs in 2006 are consumables, rent of building, rates and taxes, repair and maintenance expenses and selling and marketing expenses. We can see this from the trend followed in the years 2002-2006.
Fixed costs in 2006 = 1400 + 1200 + 400 + 800 + 5800 = 9600 => fixed costs in 2007 are same.
We can see that that material , labour and operation costs depend on no. of units.
If we take units = x .
Total cost of these 3 materials is 50x +20x+30x = 100x and remaining fixed cost taking same as in 2006 we get , 9600+100x.
As the selling price is 125, we have 100x + 9600 < 125*x.
Solving this we get x = 384.
Hence option  C.Â
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