Break-Even Point
What Break-Even Point means in Business GCSE, as defined for AQA, Eduqas, OCR.
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The level of output where total revenue equals total costs.
The level of output where total revenue equals total costs, resulting in zero profit and zero loss.
The level of output where total revenue exactly equals total costs.
Topics that use Break-Even Point
- Financial terms and calculations (AQA GCSE)
- Finance (Eduqas GCSE)
- Break-even (OCR GCSE)
- Finance (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Fixed Costs
- Average annual profit
- Average rate of return
- Average Rate of Return (ARR)
- Break-even
- Break-even chart
- Break-even level of output
- Break-even output
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