Contribution Income Statement and Operating Leverage Willamette Valley Fruit Company started as a small cannery-style operation in 1999. The company now processes, on average, 20 million pounds of berries each year. Flash-frozen berries are sold in 30 pound packs to retailers. Assume 650,000 packs were sold for $75 each last year. Variable costs were $42 per pack and fixed costs totaled $14,250,000.Enjoy the berry best blueberries in the world!" The selling price is $90 per crate, variable costs are $80 per crate, and fixed costs are $280,000 per year. In the year 2017, Stateline Berry Farm sold 50,000 crates.
Prepare a contribution income statement for the year ended December 31, 2017. HINT: Use a negative sign with both "costs" answers.
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Contribution Income Statement
For the Year Ended December 31, 2017
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5. profit maximization and shutting down in the short run suppose that the market for polos is a competitive market. the following graph shows the daily cost curves of a firm operating in this market. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 price (dollars per polo) quantity (thousands of polos) mc atc avc for each price in the following table, calculate the firm's optimal quantity of units to produce, and determine the profit or loss if it produces at that quantity, using the data from the previous graph to identify its total variable cost. assume that if the firm is indifferent between producing and shutting down, it will produce. (hint: you can select the purple points [diamond symbols] on the previous graph to see precise information on average variable cost.) price quantity total revenue fixed cost variable cost profit (dollars per polo) (polos) (dollars) (dollars) (dollars) (dollars) 12.50 135,000 27.50 135,000 45.00 135,000 if the firm shuts down, it must incur its fixed costs (fc) in the short run. in this case, the firm's fixed cost is $135,000 per day. in other words, if it shuts down, the firm would suffer losses of $135,000 per day until its fixed costs end (such as the expiration of a building lease). this firm's shutdown price—that is, the price below which it is optimal for the firm to shut down—is per polo.