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Manager's Toolkit
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Manager's Toolkit

by Harvard Business Review
March 2004
Beginner
352 pages
6h 44m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Breakeven Analysis and Operating Leverage

Understanding Cash Flow

Key Topics Covered in This Chapter

The concepts of fixed costs, variable costs, and contribution margin

How to determine breakeven on a fixed investment

The benefits and dangers of operating leverage Understanding Cash Flow

 

THIS CHAPTER explains breakeven analysis, another financial tool that many managers find useful in making decisions. Explaining this tool introduces several other financial concepts that every manager should understand: fixed costs, variable costs, contribution margin, and operating leverage.

Breakeven analysis indicates how much (or how much more) you ...

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ISBN: 9781422160756