You are preparing for a meeting at which your company will discuss its selling price for a new product. You have already made the decision to invest $2.3 million in production facilities with a capacity to produce 350,000 units per year. Fixed expenses, including depreciation and minimal advertising, will be $300,000 per year. Variable expenses will be $4 per unit. Your marketing people have developed three sales scenarios:
a. At a price of $7 per unit, below much of the competition, you sell 200,000 units per year.
b. At a price of $9 per unit, the average among the competition, you sell 135,000 units per year.
c. At a price of $7 per unit, with an additional $400,000 per year spent to advertise your low price, you sell 300,000 units per year. Prepare a schedule (according to the following format) that shows the pro forma (or expected) profit from each scenario.
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Unit price Estimated sales in units |
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Strategy B |
Strategy B |
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Sales revenue |
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Variable expenses |
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Fixed expenses |
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Additional advertising |
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Total expenses |
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Pro forma operating profit |
Which scenario would you recommend? Why?