document.write( "Question 1027494: Last year, Jen and Berry Inc. had sales of $50,000, cost of goods sold (COGS) of 12,000, depreciation charge of $3,000 and selling, general and administrative (SG&A) cost of $10,000. The interest costs were $2,500. Tewnty-five percent of SG&A costs are fixed costs. If its sales are expected to be $60,000 this year, what will be the estimated SG&A costs this year? \n" ); document.write( "
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i would say the sg&a costs would be equal to 11,500.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "10,000 this year.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "25% is fixed, so fixed = 2,500 and 7,500 is variable, meaning it is dependent on sales.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "assuming the fixed costs didn't change, then:\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "fixed costs = 2,500.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "variable costs = 7,500 * 60,000 / 50,000 = 9,000.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "total sg&a cost becomes 2,500 + 9,000 = 11,500.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "that's my take.\r
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