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budgeting & finance please provide formula(s) as work needs to be transfered to

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Question

budgeting & finance

please provide formula(s) as work needs to be transfered to excel

Cost Behavior: Problem 4

Hopeful Hospital processes its own laboratory specimens. The Vice President for support services wants to determine the fixed and variable components of services provided and decides to use the high low method and operating data from the past six months. Determine the variable cost and the fixed cost. Use Excel or Sheets to show your work.

Laboratory Costs

Specimens Processed

January

$ 1,710,000

450,000

February

$ 2,090,000

580,000

March

$ 1,632,000

405,000

April

$ 2,105,000

600,000

May

$ 1,900,000

520,000

June

$ 2,145,000

610,000


Required:

1. Use the high-low method to estimate the fixed and variable components of admitting costs. Use Excel or Sheets to show your work.

2. Express the fixed and variable components of admitting costs as a cost formula in the form Y= a+ bX.

Laboratory Costs

Specimens Processed

January

$ 1,710,000

450,000

February

$ 2,090,000

580,000

March

$ 1,632,000

405,000

April

$ 2,105,000

600,000

May

$ 1,900,000

520,000

June

$ 2,145,000

610,000

Explanation / Answer

Dear Student Thank you for using Chegg Please find below the answer and please give thumbs up   Statementshowing Computations Paticulars Amount Cost at highest level of activity        2,145,000.00 Cost at Lowest level of activity        1,632,000.00 Highest level of activity            610,000.00 Lowest Level of activity            405,000.00 Variable cost per unit = (2145,000 - 1632,000)/(610,000 - 405,000) Variable cost per unit = 513,000/205,000 Variable cost per unit = $2.5024 Fixed Costs = 1632000 - 405000*2.5024 Fixed Costs = $618,512.20 Y = 618,532.20 + 2.5024*x