Managerial Accounting
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Calculating Unknowns, Predicting Relationship among
The following is partial information for Charleston Company’s most recent year of operation. It manufactures Iawn mowers and categories operations into two divisions: Bermuda and Midiron.
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Determine the missing amounts in the preceding table.
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Nation's Capital Fitness, Inc., operates a chain of fitness centers in the Washington, D.C., area.
The firm's controller is accumulating data to be used in preparing its annual profit plan for the
coming year. The cost behavior pattern of the firm's equipment maintenance costs must be
determined. The accounting staff has suggested the use of the high-low method to develop an
equation, in the form of Y=a+bX, for maintenance costs. Data regarding the maintenance hours
and costs for last year are as follows:
Month
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Total
Average
"Rounded
Hours of Maintenance
Service
530
470
260
470
360
450
330
450
470
380
360
360
4,890
408-
Maintenance
Costs
$ 5,068
4,220
2,800
4,330
2,970
4,140
3,100
3,510
4,010
3,200
3,250
3,040
$43,638
$ 3,637
Required:
1. Using the high-low method of cost estimation, estimate the behavior of the…
Alyeska Services Company, a division of a major oil company, provides various services to the operators of
the North Slope oil field in Alaska. Data concerning the most recent year appear below:
Sales
Net operating income
Average operating assets
Required:
1. Compute the margin.
Note: Round your answer to 2 decimal places.
2. Compute the turnover.
Note: Round your answer to 2 decimal places.
3. Compute the return on investment (ROI).
Note: Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 2 decimal places.
1. Margin
2. Turnover
3. ROI
$ 18,200,000
$ 4,500,000
$ 35,600,000
%
%
Refer to the information for Jasper Company on the previous page.Required:1. Prepare an income statement for Jasper for last year. Calculate the percentage of sales for eachline item on the income statement. (Note: Round percentages to the nearest tenth of a percent.)2. CONCEPTUAL CONNECTION Briefly explain how a manager could use the incomestatement created for Requirement 1 to better control costs.
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