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Economics, Accounting & Business: Post your doubts here!

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the cost of sales is 800-200=600
now add the overheads to this
the total costs shall be 600+400 = 1000
now take the sales figure to be x.
net profit will be x-1000
so substituting in the formula for net profit margin we get :
(x-1000)/x multiplied by 100 = 20.
when we solve this 100x-100000=20x
and so x=100000/20.
so x being the sales figure we get the ans as 1250.
 
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the cost of sales is 800-200=600
now add the overheads to this
the total costs shall be 600+400 = 1000
now take the sales figure to be x.
net profit will be x-1000
so substituting in the formula for net profit margin we get :
(x-1000)/x multiplied by 100 = 20.
when we solve this 100x-100000=20x
and so x=100000/20.
so x being the sales figure we get the ans as 1250.


sorry i made an error while typing in the end.
in my second last line it should be x=100000/80 which gives 1250

sorry
 
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can anyone plzzz solev my doubt......View attachment 10220

here is the solution (2nd method) :

here we have to use a method known as hit and trial method. first we need to calculate the amount of expenses. increase in stock is closing stock. we will subtract the closing stock from purchases. then we will add overheads in it. ( $800,000 - $200,000 + $400,000 = $1000,000 ). Note that the dividends are paid from the retained earnings as per the new IAS standards revision, therefore it has nothing to do with the profit so it will be ignored here.

Now we have to use the hit and trial method once we have calculated the expenses. in this method we try all the values and then pick the one giving the right answer. we will subtract the expenses from all the values of the profit. in this case, once we come to option B, we know that $1250,000 - $1000,000 = $250,000 net profit. As we know the NP margin, therefore, = $250,000/$1250,000*100 = 20%. hence the answer is option B
 
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