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2 Managerial Accounting, 16th edition
1-9 A discretionary fixed cost has a fairly
short planning horizon—usually a year. Such
costs arise from annual decisions by
management to spend on certain fixed cost
1-10 Yes. As the anticipated level of activity
changes, the level of fixed costs needed to
support operations may also change. Most fixed
1-11 The traditional approach organizes costs
by function, such as production, selling, and
administration. Within a functional area, fixed
and variable costs are intermingled. The
1-13 A differential cost is a cost that differs
between alternatives in a decision. An
1-14 No, differential costs can be either
variable or fixed. For example, the alternatives
might consist of purchasing one machine rather