Cost Accounting

Cost Accounting

b. SHATTA MOVEMENT Lid produces a single product. The company's directors want to explore new markets, and they require an accurate analysis of the firm's cost structure for bath forecasting and pricing purposes. An attempt to provide this analysis from the aggregation of individual costs has produced a poor correspondence between actual and predicted costs. You are an accountant employed by SHATTA MOVEMENT Lid, and you have been asked to provide a statistical approach to the problem. The financial director has given you the following data: Ibrahim Anyass Ahmed 4 of 5 Period Output (units) Average unit oost (GHS) July 9.00 12.8 August 14,000 13 September 11.XID 114 October 8.000 12 I November 6.000 13 December 12.000 You obtain the following further information: The costs from which the averages have been computed consist of the firm's entire costs for the relevant month. Fixed costs can be assumed to be unaffected by seasonal factors except for harmattan heating. In July and August a supplementary heating system was employed; this cost GHS 10,000 per month to operate. Required: Estimate SHATTA MOVEMENT Ltd.'s normal fixed and variable cost of production using linear regression (16 marks) TOTAL MARKS (21 MARKS) b. SHATTA MOVEMENT Lid produces a single product. The company's directors want to explore new markets, and they require an accurate analysis of the firm's cost structure for bath forecasting and pricing purposes. An attempt to provide this analysis from the aggregation of individual costs has produced a poor correspondence between actual and predicted costs. You are an accountant employed by SHATTA MOVEMENT Lid, and you have been asked to provide a statistical approach to the problem. The financial director has given you the following data: Ibrahim Anyass Ahmed 4 of 5 Period Output (units) Average unit oost (GHS) July 9.00 12.8 August 14,000 13 September 11.XID 114 October 8.000 12 I November 6.000 13 December 12.000 You obtain the following further information: The costs from which the averages have been computed consist of the firm's entire costs for the relevant month. Fixed costs can be assumed to be unaffected by seasonal factors except for harmattan heating. In July and August a supplementary heating system was employed; this cost GHS 10,000 per month to operate. Required: Estimate SHATTA MOVEMENT Ltd.'s normal fixed and variable cost of production using linear regression (16 marks) TOTAL MARKS (21 MARKS)