An important tool in predicting the volume of activity, the costs to be incurred, the sales to be made, and the profit to be earned is: a. target income analysis
b. cost - volume profit analysis
c. least -square regression of costs
d, varaince analysis
e. process costing

b. cost - volume profit analysis

Explanation:

Cost - volume profit analysis (CVP) is a tool the is used for mix of products sold, unit variable cost, total fixed costs, break-even point, sales volume, selling price.

CVP is a way that business gauge the different levels of cost and production volume on profit.

CVP is also called break even analysis which determines at which production level a business makes profit.

This analysis assumes that price, variable cost and fixed cost are constant.

The analysis allows companies get an accurate volume of units of products that will begin to bring in profits (break even)

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