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Cost behaviour

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  • December 6, 2020 at 3:40 am #597809
    applessauce
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    4.11 The following information for advertising and sales has been established over the past six months:

    Month Sales revenue Advertising expenditure
    $’000 $’000
    1 155 3
    2 125 2.5
    3 200 6
    4 175 5.5
    5 150 4.5
    6 225 6.5

    Using the high-low method which of the following is the correct equation for linking advertising and sales from the above data?
    A Sales revenue = 62,500 + (25 × advertising expenditure)
    B Advertising expenditure = – 2,500 + (0.04 × sales revenue)
    C Sales revenue = 95,000 + (20 × advertising expenditure)
    D Advertising expenditure = – 4,750 + (0.05 × sales revenue)

    Sir I don’t understand how to do this question

    The correct answer is option A

    I tried substituting the figure 3000(month 1) in advertising expenditure for the option A answer but the answer doesn’t seem to come

    =62500+(25*3000)
    =137500

    This 137500 was not equal to 155000 in month 1

    Sir how could the answer be option A when it doesn’t even tally according to the formula

    Sir also i do understand that there is another approach for this question using high low method but i want to know this approach by substituting the data in the equations because I find it more convenient(It doesn’t take much time unlike high low )

    December 6, 2020 at 10:40 am #597839
    John Moffat
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    As I explain in my free lectures, the equation will not ‘tally’ for each month (except for the highest and lowest) unless the relationship is perfectly linear.

    That is one of the problems with the high low approach and why calculating the relationship using correlation and regression is a better approach.

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