Cost Behavior SmokeCity, Inc., manufactures barbeque smokers. Based on past expe
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Question
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 = $541,360 + $1.43X, where X equals number of smokers. Last year, SmokeCity produced 20,200 smokers. Actual overhead costs for the year were as expected.
Required:
1. What is the driver for the overhead activity?
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) 19,900 units and (b) 21,500 units. Round your answers to the nearest cent.
The reason the unit costs changed in the way they did is because:
the relevant range has increased
the total fixed costs are increasing
the fixed costs are being spread over the different levels of production.
the unit variable cost is dropping as production rises
19,900 Units 21,500 Units Unit cost $ $ Unit fixed cost Unit variable costExplanation / Answer
Solution:
1.number of smokers
2. Total overhead cost $570,246
3. Total fixed overhead cost $541,360
4. Total variable overhead cost $28,886
5. Unit cost = $28.23
6. Fixed overhead cost per unit = $26.80
7. Variable overhead cost per unit = $1.43
8.
The reason the unit costs changed in the way they did is because:
the fixed costs are being spread over the different levels of production.
19,900 units 21,500 units Unit cost $28.63 $26.61 Unit fixed cost $27.20 $25.18 Unit variable cost $1.43 $1.43