Salem Telephone Company ("STC")
Question 1
Variable Costs
Equipment costs: Power
Wages and Salaries: Operations hourly personnel
Fixed Costs
Space costs: Rent, custodial services
Equipment costs: Computer leases, maintenance, depreciation of computer equipment and office equipment / fixtures
Wages and Salaries: Operations salaried staff, systems development and maintenance, administration, and sales
Sales promotions
Corporate services
The group actively debated fixed versus variable labor expenses based on our own industry experience, but used our interpretation of the reading to come to our final conclusion. We considered costs to be variable if the expenses on the income statement were directly influenced by revenue hours on Exhibit 1 in the case.
Question 2
- Power cost per revenue hour is $4.70/hr
- Operations hourly personnel: $24.00/hr
Variable cost per revenue hour is $28.70/hr
Question 3
- Price per unit is $400/hr internal......
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