In March, Olimpia SA had the following costs related to the production of 10,000 units:
Direct Materials $ 60,000
Variable direct labor $ 20,000
Plant rent $ 5,000
Machine depreciation (in a straight line) $ 4,000
Calculate the variable cost per unit:
variable costs are those costs that vary along with the production, on the other hand fixed costs do not vary with the number of units produced they are fixed irrespective of units produced
Direct material - variable cost
Direct labour - variable cost
Plant rent - fixed cost
Depreciation - fixed cost
variable cost per unit = total variable cost / number of units produced
Total variable cost = 60,000+20,000 = 80,000
variable cost per unit = 80,000 / 10,000 = $8 per unit
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