Chapter 7 - Cost-volume-profit analysis. After completing this chapter, you should be able to: Compute a break-even point using the contribution-margin approach and the equation approach; compute the contribution-margin ratio and use it to find the break-even point in sales dollars; prepare a cost-volume-profit (CVP) graph and explain how it is used;. | Lecture Managerial accounting: Creating value in a dynamic business environment (10th edition): Chapter 7 - Ronald W. Hilton, David E. Platt