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Contribution margin is the term used in marginal costing under which all unit costs are segregated as fixed cost and variable cost. It is generally assumed that any unit sold must atleast should recover it's variable cost in short term and after that any money earned by that unit is contributed towards recovering of fixed cost. So under breakeven analysis it is figured out by management that atleast how much units should be manufactured and sold to recover all it's fixed cost and start earning some profit.

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