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Darnell Poston, owner of Poston Manufacturing, Inc., wants to determine the cost behavior of labor and overhead. Darnell pays his workers a salary; during busy times, everyone works to get the orders out. Temps (temporary workers hired through an agency) may be hired to pack and prepare completed orders for shipment. During slower times, Darnell catches up on bookkeeping and administrative tasks while the salaried workers do preventive maintenance, clean the lines and building, etc. Temps are not hired during slow times. Darnell found that workers' salaries, temp agency payments, rentals, utilities, and plant and equipment depreciation are the largest dollar accounts. He believes that workers' salaries and plant and equipment depreciation are fixed, temp agency payments are associated with the number of orders (since temp workers are used to pack and prepare completed orders for shipment), and electricity is associated with the number of machine hours. When the number of different parts stored by Poston exceeds the space in the materials storeroom, Darnell rents nearby warehouse space. He can rent as much or as little space as he wants on a month-to-month basis. Therefore, he believes warehouse rental payments are variable with the number of parts purchased and stored. The account balances for the past six months as well as the six-month total are as follows:

CoursHeroTranscribedText: Plant & Workers' Temp Agency Warehouse Equipment Salaries Payments Rental Electricity Depreciation January $7,500 $0 $150 $275 $2,200 February 7,500 600 350 385 2,200 March 7,500 1,100 325 705 2,200 April 7,500 1,350 340 745 2,200 May 7,500 1,750 335 765 2,200 June 7,500 1,500 210 725 2,200 Total $45,000 $6,300 $1,710 $3,600 $13,200 Information on number of machine hours, orders, and parts for the six-month period follows: Machine Hours Number of Orders Number of Parts January 2,000 10 200

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