Coastal Dental Care is a specialized dental practice whose only service is whitening teeth. Coastal has recorded the following for the past nine months: Month Number of Teeth Whitened Total Cost January 300 February 250 March 550 April 600 May 350 June 400 July 450 August 225 September 375 $4,200 $3,800 $6,200 $6,500 $4,500 $5,200 $5,700 $3,600 $4,700 1. Use the high-low method to estimate total fixed cost and variable cost per whitening. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) 2. Using these estimates, calculate Coastal's total cost for whitening 700 teeth.

The administrator of Break-a-Leg Hospital is aware of the need to keep his costs down because he just negotiated a new capitated arrangement with a large insurance company.  Below are selected planned and actual expenses for the previous month.                                Givens:   Budgeteda   Actual               A Patient days   27,000   26,000               B Pharmacy   $120,000   $160,000               C Miscellaneous supplies   $66,000   $77,500               D Fixed overhead costs   $808,000   $880,000               1.  Prepare a flexible expense estimate for variable costs.   . Flexible budget estimate.    Budgeted    Flexible   Actual       Patient days   27,000       26,000       Cost per patient day   $6.89       $9.13       Total cost   $186,000       $237,500     2.  Compute the volume variance.3.  Compute the cost variance.  4.  Compute the per unit cost variance.   5.  Is the unfavorable variance caused by the volume of patients or the cost…

Harmon Recycling Services (HRS), a not-for-profit organization, has two drop-off centers, Westside and Eastside. Data for the expected operation in the next quarter follow. Clients Revenues Staff hours Eastside 25,000 $ 510,000 8,100 Staff costs $ 99,000 Westside 6,250 $ 340,000 2,700 $ 153,000 General operating costs Total 31,250 $ 850,000 10,800 $ 252,000 $ 510,000 Required: a. Compute the predetermined overhead rate used to apply general operating costs to the two centers assuming HRS uses the number of clients to allocate general operating costs. b. Based on the rates computed in requirement (a), what is the expected surplus (revenues less costs) for each center? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Required A Required B Based on the rates computed in requirement (a), what is the expected surplus (revenues less costs) for each center? Center Surplus Eastside Westside

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Alard Manufacturing Company has a billing department staffed by four billing clerks. Each clerk is paid 32,000 per year and is able to process 8,000 bills. Last year, 27,360 bills were processed by the four agents. Calculate the unused capacity in terms of number of bills. a. 27,360 b. 4,640 c. 8,000 d. 32,000

Draw a graph of the cost behavior for each of the following costs incurred by the Mountain Summit Hospital. The hospital measures monthly activity in patient days. Label both axes and the cost line in each graph.1. The cost of food varies in proportion to the number of patient days of activity. In January, the hospital provided 3,000 patient days of care, and food costs amounted to $24,000.2. The cost of salaries and fringe benefits for the administrative staff totals $12,000 per month.3. The hospital’s laboratory costs include two components: (a) $40,000 per month for compensation of personnel and depreciation on equipment and (b) $10 per patient day for chemicals and other materials used in performing the tests.4. The cost of utilities depends on how many wards the hospital needs to use during a particular month. During months with activity under 2,000 patient days of care, two wards are used, resulting in utility costs of $10,000. During months with greater than 2,000 patient days…

Harmon Recycling Services (HRS), a not-for-profit organization, has two drop-off centers, Westside and Eastside. Data for the expected operation in the next quarter follow. Clients Revenues Eastside 25,000 $360,000 8,100 Westside 6,250 $ 240,000 2,700 $ 99,000 $ 108,000 Staff hours Staff costs General operating costs Required: a. Compute the predetermined overhead rate used to apply general operating costs to the two centers assuming HRS uses the number of clients to allocate general operating costs. b. Based on the rates computed in requirement (a), what is the expected surplus (revenues less costs) for each center? Required A Required B Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Predetermined overhead rate Total 31,250 $ 600,000 10,800 $ 207,000 $360,000 Compute the predetermined overhead rate used to apply general operating costs to the two centers assuming HRS uses the number of clients to allocate general operating costs. Note: Round your answer to 2…

Health-Temp Company is a placement agency for temporary nurses. It serves hospitals and clin-ics throughout the metropolitan area. Health-Temp Company believes it will place temporary nurses for a total of 23,500 hours next year. Health-Temp charges the hospitals and clinics $90per hour and has variable costs of $75.60 per hour (this includes the payment to the nurse). Totalfixed costs equal $321,000.Required:1. Calculate the contribution margin per unit and the contribution margin ratio.2. Calculate the sales revenue needed to break even.3. Calculate the sales revenue needed to achieve a target profit of $100,000.4. What if Health-Temp had target operating income (profit) of $110,000? Would sales revenuebe larger or smaller than the one calculated in Requirement 3? Why? By how much?

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