Blinson Manufacturing has the following product information available: If Blinson has calculated that it needs to sell 20,000 units in order to earn an after-tax target profit of $126,000, what were Blinson's fixed costs?

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Blinson Manufacturing has the following product information available:  If Blinson has calculated that it needs to sell 20,000 units in order to earn an after-tax target profit of $126,000, what were Blinson's fixed costs?

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The equation to calculate the required sales revenue to achieve the target profit is:
Required sales revenue = (total costs + target profit) / (1 - tax rate)

Assuming the tax rate is 30%, and using the given information, we can calculate the required sales revenue as follows:

Required sales revenue = ($4,180,000 + $126,000) / (1 - 0.3) = $6,311,428.57

To further calculate the fixed costs, we can use the following formula:

Fixed costs = total costs - variable costs

Variable costs can be calculated using the following formula:

Variable costs = unit variable cost x sales volume

The unit variable cost is not given, so we cannot calculate the exact variable costs. However, we can make a reasonable assumption that the unit variable cost is $30, based on the given information that the cost of goods sold is $1,200,000 for a sales volume of 40,000 units.

Using this assumption, we can calculate the variable costs as follows:

Variable costs = $30 x 20,000 = $600,000

Therefore, the fixed costs can be calculated as:

Fixed costs = $4,180,000 - $600,000 = $3,580,000

Thus, the answer is C ($820,000).

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