Cost Behavior

SmokeCity, Inc., manufactures barbeque smokers. Based on past experience, SmokeCity has found that its total annual overhead costs can be represented by the following formula: Overhead cost = $526,300 + $1.49X, where X equals number of smokers. Last year, SmokeCity produced 19,000 smokers. Actual overhead costs for the year were as expected.

Required:

1. What is the driver for the overhead activity? Number of smokers

For questions 2-4, Enter the final answers rounded to the nearest dollar.

2. What is the total overhead cost incurred by SmokeCity last year?

$

3. What is the total fixed overhead cost incurred by SmokeCity last year?

$

4. What is the total variable overhead cost incurred by SmokeCity last year?

$

For questions 5-7, round your answers to the nearest cent. Use those rounded figures in subsequent computations, if necessary.

5. What is the overhead cost per unit produced?

$ per unit

6. What is the fixed overhead cost per unit?

$ per unit

7. What is the variable overhead cost per unit?

$ per unit

8. Recalculate Requirements 5, 6, and 7 for the following levels of production: (a) 18,600 units and (b) 20,400 units. Round your answers to the nearest cent.

	18,600 Units	20,400 Units
Unit cost	$	$
Unit fixed cost
Unit variable cost

The reason the unit costs changed in the way they did is because: