kspears
Sep 14, 2010, 05:15 PM
Using the high-low method what is the maintenance cost if:
 
                                                                         High level      low level
Direct labor hour                                               65200          48900
Factory overhead                                              313740        277880
morgaine300
Sep 14, 2010, 10:54 PM
I've never seen high low method used in such a manner.  It's a method used to differential fixed and variable costs.
 
You can use it for this to distinguish what portion of the overhead was based on a rate using DL hours as the base, and what was leftover not using that rate.  I've never seen it applied to that, but the math would work the same way.
 
Is there an assumption there that the portion not using the rate is the maintenance costs portion?  Cause you didn't actually say how the maintenance costs are related to this.
 
Here's a thread explaining two different ways to do a high low:
https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/accounting/high-low-method-223233.html