SECTION B: Answer the following four questions.

QUESTION 2

Solutions Ltd. has prepared three forecasted demand quantities for the next period for a timber treatment. The original budget was to produce 12,000 litres and the manufacturing cost per litre per of the product as follows: 

Required

a) Estimate the manufacturing cost per litre of the product at the other two levels of demand 16,800 and 21,600 litres.

b) Explain with examples the difference between fixed and semi-fixed costs and comment on why the cost per litre of the product changes with the increase in the number of litres made.

c) The timber treatment will be sold for £1.00/litre at 12,000 litres activity level. Calculate the budgeted break-even sales, in litres, for this product and the margin of safety in percentage if the budgeted sales is 12,000 litres.

d) In order to have reliable results from Break-even analysis, some assumptions must be met. Evaluate and discuss those assumptions.