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Question on the case: Chewing gum

Solve Profit margin issue with margin ratio?

Chewing gum
Most recent answer on Apr 26, 2020
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Hello Tuan, Your analysis seems perfect, at least for a first approach to the problem. Be sure that you don't consider just the production cost/unit but also overall costs like delivery. For example, a less efficient ... (read entire answer)
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Indirect costs per unit remain constant implications

Chewing gum fixed costs profitability analysis
Most recent answer on Dec 12, 2019
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Hello Marcelo, You raised a good point but if you read carefully the text, the problem of your client is not the absolute value of the margin, but the profit margin. For this reason, the fact that incidence of the ind ... (read entire answer)
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