The following data relate to the overhead expenditure of contract cleaners at two activity levels:Square metres cleaned 12,750 15,100Overheads $73,950 $83,585Using the high-low method, what is the estimate of the overhead cost if 16,200 square metres are to be cleaned?
A company manufactures and sells toys and incurs the following three costs:(i) Rental of the finished goods warehouse(ii) Depreciation of its own fleet of delivery vehicles(iii) Commission paid to sales staff.Which of these are classified as distribution costs?
A company incurs the following costs at various activity levels:
?? ??Total cost?????????????????? Activity level
????????????? $??????????????????????????? Units
????????? 250.000????????????????? ? 5,000
???????? 312,500?????????????????? ? 7,500
???????? 400.000?????????????????? ?10,000
Using the high-low method what is the variable cost per unit?
An organisation manufactures a single product. The total cost of making 4,000 units is $20,000 and the total cost of making 20,000 units is $40,000. Within this range of activity the total fixed costs remain unchanged.What is the variable cost per unit of the product?
The total materials cost of a company is such that when total purchases exceed 15,000 units in any period, then all units purchased, including the first 15,000, are invoiced at a lower cost per unit.Which of the following graphs is consistent with the behaviour of the total materials cost in a period?
A supplier of telephone services charges a fixed line rental per period. The first 10 hours of telephone calls by the customer are free, after that all calls are charged at a constant rate per minute up to a maximum, thereafter all calls in the period are again free.Which of the following graphs depicts the total cost to the customer of the telephone services in a period?
The following production and total cost information relates to a single product organisation for the last three months:
Month?????? ?Production????????? Total cost
??????????????????? ?units???????????????????????? ?$
? 1???????????????? 1,200??????????????? ?66,600
?? 2??????????????? 900???????????????????? 58,200
?? 3?????????????? 1,400???????????????? ?68,200
The variable cost per unit is constant up to a production level of 2,000 units per month but a step up of $6,000 in the monthly total fixed cost occurs when production reaches 1,100 units per month.What is the total cost for a month when 1,000 units are produced?
Fixed costs are conventionally deemed to be which of the following?
The following data relate to the overhead expenditure of a contract cleaners at two activity levels.
Square metres cleaned???????????????? ?13,500?????????????????????? 15,950
Overheads???????????????????????????????????? ?$84,865???????????????????? $97,850
What is the estimate of the overheads if 18,300 square metres are to be cleaned?
A company has recorded the following data in the two most recent periods.??
Total costs?????????????????????????? ?Volume of
of production???????????????????????? production
??????? $?????????????????????????????????????? Units
??? 13,500???????????????????????????????????700
???? 18,300???????????????????????????????? 1,100
What is the best estimate of the company's fixed costs per period??