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Eagle Manufacturing has incurred the following machine maintenance costs over the first half of 2018: Month Machine Hours Cost ($) January 10,000 15,500 February 15,000 16,233 March 12,750 15,985 April 13,268 16,025 May 9,256 11,159 June 10,335 15,117 Required: Using the High – Low method compute: a. The variable cost component of the Maintenance Costs. b. The fixed cost component of the Maintenance Costs. c. The total Maintenance Costs for the month of July, which is projected to use 13,295 machine hours.
Note: The variable cost per machine hour is rounded off to 5 decimal places for accuracy, in the absence of specific instructions regarding rounding off. All other amounts are rounded off to the nearest whole dollar. Kindly round off as required since the answers would vary depending on the number of decimal places to which rounded off.
a. The variable cost component of the Maintenance Costs: $0.88336 per machine hour
b. The fixed cost component of the Maintenance Costs: $2983
c. The total Maintenance Costs for July: $14727
Working:
Machine Hours | Maintenance Costs | |
High activity level | 15000 | $16,233 |
Low activity level | 9256 | $11,159 |
Change | 5744 | $5,074 |
a. Variable cost per machine hour = $5074/5744 = $0.88336
b. Fixed cost (at high level) = $16233 - (15000 x $0.88336) = $16233 - $13250 = $2983
Fixed cost (at low level) = $11159 - (9256 x $0.88336) = $11159 - $8176 = $2983
c. Maintenance Costs for July = $2983 + (13295 x $0.88336) = $2983 + $11744 = $14727