Break-even volume
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Basis
Currency, unit of sale and the period your fixed costs coverOptional label — appears on the printed report.
Fixed costs
Costs that do not change with volumeTotal fixed costs—
Variable costs per unit
Costs incurred only when you sell one more unitVariable cost per unit at current price—
of which percentage-based—
Price, volume & targets
What you charge and what you expect to sell
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Net of sales tax / VAT / GST — see the tax field below.
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Your realistic plan, not your best month.
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The profit the plan has to deliver, after all listed costs.
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Fit-out, equipment, launch spend — recovered from profit over time.
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Used only to show the tax-inclusive shelf price. Break-even is always calculated on the net price, because collected tax is not your money.
Price solver
Work backwards from a target to the price you need
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Enter a price and at least one cost to use the solver.
The solver changes price only. It assumes volume does not react to the new price — which is rarely true. Read “Using the price solver responsibly” in Help before you take the number to a customer.
Report header
Appears on the printed report — optionalShown in the “Notes & assumptions” section of the printed report.
Results
Break-even revenue
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Contribution / unit
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Contribution margin
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Profit at plan
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Break-even chart
Revenue against total cost — the crossing point is break-evenWhere one unit of price goes
Price split into each variable cost and the contribution left overTime to break even on the investment
How long the one-off spend takes to come back at plan volumePayback period
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Expected recovery date
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Scenario comparison
Three versions of the same plan — adjustments apply to the Calculator figures| Scenario | Price | Var. cost / unit | Contribution | CM % | Fixed costs | Break-even units | Break-even revenue | Volume | Profit | Verdict |
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Scenario chart
Break-even units and profit side by side — every bar labelledSensitivity grid
How the plan behaves when price and variable cost move together
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