To calculate the unit cost of the MP3 players that he sells at his mall kiosk, Joel

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To calculate the unit cost of the MP3 players that he sells at his mall kiosk, Joel Lawson added up all his costs and divided by the number of units he sold during the year. He then used this unit cost to estimate total costs for the coming year.


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Explain to Joel why this unit cost is not useful in predicting total costs for the coming year.


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Managerial Accounting

ISBN: 978-1118338445

2nd edition

Authors: Charles E. Davis, Elizabeth Davis

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