If you solved a and b correctly you are still losing money

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Your regular price is $50/unit, unit variable cost is $40/unit and fixed costs are $3,000 per month. Because of the recession, your sales have dropped to 200 units a month, so you are losing money. You are considering two options to increase sales:
(1) reduce the price to $48/unit, or
(2) run an advertising campaign, which will cost you $300 a month, but keep the price at $50/unit.
In both scenarios, you estimate that sales will increase by 20%, from 200 to 240 units per month.
Required:
a) Compute total revenues, costs and profits under the status quo (original situation), and for each of the two new options.

	status quo	price reduction	advertising
Revenue	$	$	$
Variable costs	$	$	$
Contribution margin	$	$	$
Fixed costs	$	$	$
Profit*	$	$	$

b) Based on your results in (a), what should you do: do nothing, reduce the price or run the advertising campaign?
(enter 1 for "do nothing", 2 for "reduce price", 3 for "advertising") 16

c) If you solved (a) and (b) correctly, you are still losing money despite choosing the best option. Should you shut down your business in the short term? Explain why or why not.

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