Fundamentals Of Cost Accounting (6th Edition)
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ISBN: 9781259969478
Author: WILLIAM LANEN, Shannon Anderson, Michael Maher
Publisher: McGraw Hill Education
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Chapter 5, Problem 58P
High-Low Method, Scattcrgraph
Academy Products manufactures a variety of custom components for use in aircraft navigation and communications systems. The controller has asked for your help in estimating fixed and variable overhead costs for Academy’s Rio Puerco plant. The controller tells you that the best cost driver for estimating overhead is machine-hours.
Monthly data on machine-hours and overhead costs for the last year have been collected and are shown below:
Required
- a. Estimate the monthly fixed costs and the unit variable cost per machine-hour using the high-low estimation method.
- b. Draw a scattergraph relating overhead costs to the number of machine-hours.
- c. Considering your scattergraph, how much confidence do you have in your estimate from requirement (a)?
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Chapter 5 Solutions
Fundamentals Of Cost Accounting (6th Edition)
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