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Empirical evidence on the association between overhead costs and non-volume related cost drivers is mixed. Anderson and Sedatole (2013) offer possible explanations for the lack of evidence and find that the cost hierarchy is descriptive of the association between resource consumption and production activity. In this paper, we provide evidence on the presence of the cost hierarchy by studying the behavior of indirect production labor costs using daily data for five years from seven production departments of an industrial equipment manufacturer. We find that in addition to direct labor costs, the number of setups and number of distinct parts are also significantly associated with indirect production costs in at least six out of the seven production departments. Interestingly, despite our evidence for the existence of the cost hierarchy, the simple method of estimating these indirect costs as a proportion of only direct labor costs performs remarkably well in predicting costs.
Rajiv D. Banker. 2022. \u201cCost Hierarchy: Evidence and Implications\u201d. Global Journal of Management and Business Research - D: Accounting & Auditing GJMBR-D Volume 21 (GJMBR Volume 21 Issue D2): .
Crossref Journal DOI 10.17406/GJMBR
Print ISSN 0975-5853
e-ISSN 2249-4588
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Country: United States
Subject: Global Journal of Management and Business Research - D: Accounting & Auditing
Authors: Rajiv D. Banker, Gordon S. Potter, Dhinu Srinivasan (PhD/Dr. count: 0)
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Empirical evidence on the association between overhead costs and non-volume related cost drivers is mixed. Anderson and Sedatole (2013) offer possible explanations for the lack of evidence and find that the cost hierarchy is descriptive of the association between resource consumption and production activity. In this paper, we provide evidence on the presence of the cost hierarchy by studying the behavior of indirect production labor costs using daily data for five years from seven production departments of an industrial equipment manufacturer. We find that in addition to direct labor costs, the number of setups and number of distinct parts are also significantly associated with indirect production costs in at least six out of the seven production departments. Interestingly, despite our evidence for the existence of the cost hierarchy, the simple method of estimating these indirect costs as a proportion of only direct labor costs performs remarkably well in predicting costs.
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