Required: 1. Assume that the relevant range is within 600 and 1200 patients. Use the high-low method
Question:
Required:
1. Assume that the relevant range is within 600 and 1200 patients. Use the high-low method to estimate the behavior of the clinic's administrative costs, based on patient load within the relevant range. Use an equation to express the results of this estimation method.
2. What is your prediction of the clinic's administrative cost during a month when 800 patients visit the hospital?
3. Would you use the cost function from requirement 1 to predict the clinic's administrative cost for 300 patient visits? Explain your answer.
4. Identify the number of emergency procedures, patient load and administrative costs for each month within the relevant range.
5. If only patient load is considered as a determinant of administration costs and only the historical patient load data that falls within the relevant range (patient load between 600 and 1200) are considered, then simple regression can be used, utilizing Excel. Following is the results of regression analysis as per the given information in the case:
Does the inclusion of additional cost driver of emergency procedures improve the model? Explain your answer.
Management Accounting
ISBN: 9781760421144
7th Edition
Authors: Kim Langfield Smith, Helen Thorne, David Alan Smith, Ronald W. Hilton