Cost-Volume Profit Analysis

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"Introduction
Companies which are busy making sales often assume that they are also making a profit. Yet this is not always the case, particularly with new businesses whose owners are technically competent and perhaps even excellent sales people but who are not familiar with the basic accounting methods used to determine whether a profit is being generated by the organization. If a company's cost structure is too high, the organization will be unlikely to generate a profit because any increase in volume also generates a high increase in costs.

Understanding the relationship among costs, volume and profit is critical if a company is going to be able to generate strategies which can promote long-term growth. This research examines the cost-volume-profit analysis technique and considers how costs are allocated to the three.."

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