Arnold Tofu Owns and Operates a Chain of 12 Vegetable

question 77

Essay

Arnold Tofu owns and operates a chain of 12 vegetable protein "hamburger" restaurants in northern Louisiana. Sales figures and advertising expenses for the stores are provided in the table below. Sales are given in millions of dollars; advertising expenses are in tens of thousands of dollars. Calculate a regression line for the data. What is your forecast of sales for a store with advertising spending of $240,000? $300,000?

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Definitions:

Indirect Costs

Expenses not directly tied to the production of goods or services, such as overhead, utilities, and administration costs.

Allocation Method

A method used in accounting and finance to distribute costs or revenues among different departments, products, or projects based on certain criteria.

Plantwide Overhead Rate

A single overhead absorption rate used throughout a manufacturing plant for allocating indirect costs to products.

Allocation Base

A factor used to distribute costs among different departments, products, or activities in a systematic and rational manner.