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MKTG 489 – FINANCIAL EXERCISES (AY 2015)
Due as an Excel (.xls) file via Titanium prior to class

EXERCISE 1

Fred Flintstone has just become the product manager for Yabba Dabba Doo, a consumer packaged product with a retail price of $2.00. Retail margins on the product are 33%, while wholesalers take a 12% margin. Yabba and its direct competitors sell a total of 40 million units annually, and Yabba has 24% market share of this total. Variable manufacturing costs for Yabba are $0.09 per unit. Fixed manufacturing costs are $1,800,000. The advertising budget for Yabba is $1,000,000. The product manager’s salary and expenses total $70,000. Salespeople are paid entirely by a 10% commission. Shipping costs, breakage, insurance, and other miscellaneous costs are $0.04 per unit.

(a) What is the unit contribution for Yabba Dabba Doo?
(b) What is Yabba Dabba Doo’s breakeven point?
(c) What market share does Yabba Dabba Doo need to break even?
(d) What is Yabba Dabba Doo’s profit?

EXERCISE 2

Total industry demand for this type of consumer packaged product is expected to increase to 46 million units next year. Wilma Flintstone has convinced her husband Fred to raise the Yabba Dabba Doo advertising budget to $1,500,000.

(a) If the advertising budget is raised next year, how many units will Yabba Dabba Doo have to sell to break even?
(b) How many units will Yabba Dabba Doo have to sell next year in order for it to achieve the same profit that it did this year?
(c) What will Yabba Dabba Doo’s market share have to be next year for its profit to be the same as this year?
(d) What will Yabba Dabba Doo’s market share have to be for it to generate a profit of $1 million?

EXERCISE 3

Upon reflection, Fred decides not to increase Yabba Dabba Doo’s advertising budget and keeps it at $1,000,000. Instead, he listens to his neighbor Barney and decides to give retailers an incentive to promote Yabba by raising their margins from 33% to 40%. The margin increase would be accomplished

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