Flow Cruiseline offers nightly dinner cruises departing from several cities on the East Coast of the United States including Charleston, Baltimore, and Alexandria. Dinner cruise tickets sell for
$80 per passenger. Flow Cruiseline's variable cost of providing the dinner is $40 per passenger, and the fixed cost of operating the vessels (depreciation, salaries, docking fees, and
other expenses) is $360,000 per month. The company's relevant range extends to 14,000 monthly passengers. The breakeven sales are 9,000 tickets sold
a. Compute the operating leverage factor when Flow Cruiseline sells 10,000 dinner cruises.
b. If volume increases by 7%, by what percentage will operating income increase?
c. If volume decreases by 3%, by what percentage will operating income decrease?
a. Compute the operating leverage factor when Flow Cruiseline sells 10,000 dinner cruises. (Round your answer to one decimal place.)
First, identify the formula, then compute the operating leverage factor.
Operating leverage factor