State three disadvantages of using the high – low method for estimating costs

      

State three disadvantages of using the high – low method for estimating costs

  

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Disadvantages of using high- low method

1. This method ignores all cost observations other than the observations for the lowest and
highest activity levels

2. Cost observations at the extreme ranges of activity levels are not always typical of normal
operating conditions

3. The method can give inaccurate cost estimates and may reflect abnormal rather than
normal cost relationships.
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