Hicks Company sells health insurance. It is interested in determining the cost equation for claims processing so it can more accurately budget its claims department. Information for the high and low costs and volumes for last year appear below Month May Activity Cost 100,000 claims $80,000 October 150,000 claims $100,000 Using the high-low method, with claims as to the activity driver, what is the level of fixed costs? a. $60,000 b. $120,000 c. $40,000 d. $0.40 per claim

Howard Cooper, the president of Vernon Computer Services, needs your help. He wonders about the potential effects on the firm's net income if he changes the service rate that the firm charges its customers. The following basic data pertain to fiscal Year 3. Standard rate and variable costs Service rate per hour Labor cost Overhead cost Selling, general, and administrative cost Expected fixed costs Facility maintenance Selling, general, and administrative Required A Required: a. Prepare the pro forma income statement that would appear in the master budget if the firm expects to provide 42,000 hours of services in Year 3. b. A marketing consultant suggests to Mr. Cooper that the service rate may affect the number of service hours that the firm can achieve. According to the consultant's analysis, if Vernon charges customers $83 per hour, the firm can achieve 52,000 hours of services. Prepare a flexible budget using the consultant's assumption. c. The same consultant also suggests that if…

Fill in the blanks for each of the following independent cases. (Click the icon to view the cases.) (For entries with a $0 balance, make sure to enter "0" in the appropriate cell. Round the contribution margin percentage to the nearest whole percent.) Variable Fixed Costs Costs Case Revenues a. $ Data table Case 400 Case a. Case b. Case c. Case d. $ 2,900 $ $ $ Total Costs 1,000 $ 1,800 Variable Fixed Total Revenues Costs Costs Costs 600 $ 400 Operating Income 800 Print $ 200 1,400 $ 200 $ Margin Percentage Contribution $ 1,000 600 $ $ Done % Operating Income 1,400 1,300 Contribution Margin Percentage 50% X

What would be the best equation using the high-low method?

Howard Cooper, the president of Thornton Computer Services, needs your help. He wonders about the potential effects on the firm's net income if he changes the service rate that the firm charges its customers. The following basic data pertain to fiscal Year 3. Standard rate and variable costs Service rate per hour Labor cost Overhead cost Selling, general, and administrative cost Expected fixed costs Facility maintenance Selling, general, and administrative Required: a. Prepare the pro forma income statement that would appear in the master budget if the firm expects to provide 42,000 hours of services in Year 3. b. A marketing consultant suggests to Mr. Cooper that the service rate may affect the number of service hours that the firm can achieve. According to the consultant's analysis, if Thornton charges customers $79 per hour, the firm can achieve 48,000 hours of services. Prepare a flexible budget using the consultant's assumption. c. The same consultant also suggests that if the…

Assume that Painless Dental Clinics, Inc. offers three basic dental services. Teh following are its prices and costs.

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Consider the following information for a given business. Sale revenue =GHS40,000 VC per unit =GHS20 Activity level =1,000 to break even Required: 1. Determine the TFC 2. Express the contribution as a percentage of sale. 3. The company plans to sale 1,500 unit in the next period. What will be the percentage margin of safety (MoS)  4. What margin should the business employ for planning purposes? 5. What total profit should the business expect in order to achieve it's planned sales?

A travel agency has a holiday package that sells for OMR 125. Fixed costs are OMR 80000; and at the present volume of 1000 customers, variable costs are OMR 25000 and profits are OMR 20000. (a) What is the break-even point volume? (b) Assuming that fixed costs remain constant, how many additional customers will be required for the agency to increase profit by OMR 1000? (Ans. (a) 800 units (b) 10 customers)

Orlando Clinic has fixed costs of $800,000, a variable cost per visit of $60, and revenue per visit of $100. For this clinic (within the relevant range), which of the following statements is most correct? O Higher volume leads to higher total costs. O Higher volume leads to higher average costs. O Higher volume leads to a higher contribution margin per unit. O Higher volume leads to lower contribution margin per unit.