Break-Even Calculator
Calculate the sales volume and revenue needed to cover fixed and variable costs. Enter your figures and export a break-even report.
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About Break-Even Calculator Tool
Calculate the sales volume and revenue needed to cover fixed and variable costs. Enter your figures and export a break-even report.
Find how many units and how much sales revenue a business needs to cover its costs. Enter the fixed costs for your chosen period, the selling price per unit and the variable cost per unit. For example, a restaurant can estimate how many meals it must sell each month at a given price and food cost. Change one input to compare scenarios before you set a target.
What Break-Even Calculator can do
- Calculate break-even units and sales revenue
- Use fixed costs, selling price and variable cost per unit
- Edit a worked example or enter your own figures
- Export a break-even report
Pros
- • Shows the inputs behind the sales target
- • Makes it easy to compare scenarios
- • Free to use in the browser
Cons
- • Assumes a consistent price and variable cost per unit
- • Break-even is a cost threshold, not a demand forecast
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Frequently asked questions
What inputs do I need?
Fixed costs for the period, selling price per unit and variable cost per unit.
What does break-even mean?
It is the sales level at which revenue covers the costs included in the calculation.
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