Question

Cost predictions should be confined to the relevant range, which is the range of activity expected for the organization. If the organization operates at an activity level outside the relevant range, any cost predictions based on data from the relevant range may not be very accurate. What happens if outliers are present in your data?

Answer 1

Answer:

TRUE

Explanation:

In managerial accounting, there are 2 meanings and significance of a relevant range.

1. The relevant range is the level of activity (range) that a firm is operating i.e. the volume of its production activity.

2. The relevant range is the level of activity within which certain cost behaviors are true i.e. whether the costs by their characteristics are fixed or variable.

Beyond a relevant range, cost behaviors could change in 2 ways

1. Variable costs could start manifesting the characteristic of semi variable costs or mixed costs or

2. Fixed costs could become stepped and become stepped fixed costs.

Therefore cost estimations which is based on cost behavior are only VALID within the relevant range. It is only within a given level of output that certain cost estimations holds true.