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3 years ago

choose a real or made-up example of a company, and describe at least three variable costs the company has. (1-3 sentences.

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For a restaurant, some variable costs could be labor costs/ worker wages, raw product/ purchasing food to cook, and energy and fuel/ utilities.

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Total Flexible Budgets for 12,000, 15,000, and 18,000 units is $ 556,000 $ 643,000 and $830,000

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Assembly Department:

Steel per filing cabinet ............................................. 55 pounds

Direct labor per filing cabinet ...................................... 20 minutes

Supervisor salaries ................................................ $180,000 per month

Depreciation ...................................................... $28,000 per month

Direct labor rate................................................... $21 per hour

Steel cost ......................................................... $0.40 per pound

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Flexible budget 

For the month of August 2014.

Units: 12000 15000 18000

Steel for filing cabinet 660,000 825000 990,000 pounds

Steel cost $264,000 330,000 $ 396,000

Direct labor Hrs 4,000 5,000 6,000

Direct labor Cost $84,000 $105,000 $ 126,000

Supervisor salaries $180,000 $180,000 $180,000

Depreciation $28,000 $28,000 $28,000

Total $ 556,000 $ 643,000 $830,000 

First we find the Steel for filing cabinets in pounds . Then we multiply with the rate to find the steel cost.

Similarly we find the direct labor hours and then the direct labor cost.

We assume that the supervisor salaries and depreciation are fixed.

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The correct answer is option a.

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