QuickBooks 2020 All-in-One For Dummies

Chapter 1

Profit-Volume-Cost Analysis

IN THIS CHAPTER

Understanding how profit-volume-cost analysis works

Computing break-even points

Performing profit-volume-cost analysis with real QuickBooks data

Dealing with some minor conundrums

Working with the Profit-Volume-Cost Analysis workbook

Profit-volume-cost analysis is a powerful tool that estimates how a business’s profits change as its sales volumes change, as well as break-even points. (A break-even point is the sales revenue level that produces zero profits.)

Profit-volume-cost analysis often produces surprising results. Typically, the analysis shows that small changes in a business’s sales volume produce big changes in profits.

Hotels and airlines are types of businesses that often see surprising fluctuations in their profits based on relatively modest changes in their sales revenue. Indeed, now that you know this, you’ll probably ...