Break-even analysis
Build a break-even table from fixed costs, price and variable cost, chart revenue against total cost, and work out the break-even volume.
In this lesson
- Revenue = bottles times price:
=A7*$B$3. - Keep the inputs in their own cells, so a what-if is one edit.
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