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Skies Ltd produces a single product. The company’s directors want to explore new markets, and they require an accurate analysis of the firm’s cost structure for both forecasting and pricing purposes. An attempt to provide this analysis from the aggregation of individual costs has produced a poor correspondence between actual and predicted costs. You are an accountant employed by Skies Ltd, and you have been asked to provide a statistical approach to the problem. The financial director has given you the following data:
Period |
Output (units) |
Average unit cost (GHS) |
July |
9,000 |
12.8 |
August |
14,000 |
13 |
September |
11,000 |
11.4 |
October |
8,000 |
12 |
1November |
6,000 |
13 |
December |
12,000 |
11.7 |
You obtain the following further information:
Required:
Estimate Skies Ltd.’s normal fixed and variable cost of production using linear regression.
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