Costs Analysis

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• Sensitivity and Break-even Analyses

  Break-even analysis is basically an analytical technique for studying the relations between: * fixed costs; * variable costs; and * profits.

• Incremental Analysis vs Comprehensive Analysis

  A comprehensive analysis showing total costs under one plan and total costs of another plan would include costs that do not change and so are not relevant. And total costs can be misleading by including sunk costs and provide a false benchmark.

• Comprehensive Analysis Compared to Incremental Analysis

  A comprehensive analysis analyzes the effect of a proposed capital budgeting decision (such as an investment in a project) on all costs of related to that decision, including costs incurred prior to acting on the decision ("sunk costs") and revenues and

• Simple & Brief Break-Even Analysis

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• Flexible budget lends itself to cost-volume-profit analysis

  CVP analysis helps in better management planning decisions by studying the relationship between costs, revenues and profit. CVP analysis assumes that costs and revenues are linear through the relevant range of activities.

• Cost Volume- Profit

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• Performing discounted cash flow analysis

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• Incremental analysis is quicker - but other advantages?

  411569 Incremental analysis is quicker - but other advantages? "Incremental analysis is quicker, but it has no other advantage over an analysis of all costs and revenues associated with each alternative." Do you agree? Why or why not?

• contribution margin analysis

  Contribution margin analysis focuses only on variable costs.