Cost Behavior
SmokeCity, Inc., manufactures barbeque smokers. Based on past experience, SmokeCity has found that its total annual overhead costs can be represented by the following formula: Overhead cost = $526,300 + $1.49X, where X equals number of smokers. Last year, SmokeCity produced 19,000 smokers. Actual overhead costs for the year were as expected.
Required:
1. What is the driver for the overhead
activity?
Number of smokers
For questions 2-4, Enter the final answers rounded to the nearest dollar.
2. What is the total overhead cost incurred by SmokeCity last year?
$
3. What is the total fixed overhead cost incurred by SmokeCity last year?
$
4. What is the total variable overhead cost incurred by SmokeCity last year?
$
For questions 5-7, round your answers to the nearest cent. Use those rounded figures in subsequent computations, if necessary.
5. What is the overhead cost per unit produced?
$ per unit
6. What is the fixed overhead cost per unit?
$ per unit
7. What is the variable overhead cost per unit?
$ per unit
8. Recalculate Requirements 5, 6, and 7 for the following levels of production: (a) 18,600 units and (b) 20,400 units. Round your answers to the nearest cent.
18,600 Units | 20,400 Units | |
---|---|---|
Unit cost | $ | $ |
Unit fixed cost | ||
Unit variable cost |
The reason the unit costs changed in the way they did is because:
Answers
18,600 Units |
20,400 Units |
|
Unit cost |
$29.79 |
$27.29 |
Unit fixed cost |
$28.30 |
$25.80 |
Unit variable cost |
$1.49 |
$1.49 |
Working
18,600 Units |
20,400 Units |
|
Unit cost |
=28.3+1.49 |
=25.8+1.49 |
Unit fixed cost |
=526300/18600 |
=526300/20400 |
Unit variable cost |
1.49 |
1.49 |
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