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What are the advantages of high/low method?

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  • The high-low method has the enormous advantage of simplicity
  • It is easy to understand and easy to use
2
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What are the disadvantages of high/low method?

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  • It assumes that activity is the only factor affecting costs
  • It assumes that historic costs reliably predict future costs
  • It uses only two values, the highest and the lowest which may be distorted due to random variations.
3
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What does Wrights Law state?

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States that as cumulative output double, the cumulative average time per unit falls to a fixed percentage of the previous average time.

4
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What is the official definition of the learning curve?

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The mathematical expression of the commonly
observed effect that, as complex and labour
intensive procedures are
repeated, unit labour times tend to decrease.

5
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What is the limitations of the Learning Curve Model

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  • The process needs to be labour intensive
  • The product needs to be new
  • The product is complex
  • Production is repetitive and there is no breaks in production
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What is the formula for the learning curve?

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Y= a * xB
X= Cumulative number of units
Y = Cumulative average time per unit to produce X units
A = Time required for first unit
b = index of learning = logr/log 2
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What is the applications of the learning effect?

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  • Pricing decisions - prices will be set too high if based of the costs of making the first few
  • Work scheduling - less labour per unit will be required.
  • Standard setting - if a product enjoys a learning cost than the standard will be too high.
  • Budgeting - the presence of a learning effect should be taken into account when setting budgets