North Company Is Making Plans for the Introduction of a New

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Essay

North Company is making plans for the introduction of a new product, which has a target selling price of $7 per unit. The following estimates of manufacturing costs have been derived for 6 million units, to be produced during the first year:
Direct material: $6,000,000
Direct labour: $2,100,000 (at $14 per hour).
Overhead costs have not yet been estimated, but monthly data on total production and overhead for the past 12 months have been analyzed by using least-squares regression. The major overhead cost driver is direct labour hours, with the following results:
Computed values.
Fixed overhead cost: $3,200,000
Coefficient of independent variable: $2.25
Required:
A. Prepare the company's regression equation (Y = a + bX) to estimate overhead.
B. Calculate the predicted overhead cost at an activity level of 6,300,000 units.
C. What is North's dependent variable in this case?
D. How can the company evaluate the "quality" of its regression equation?

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