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The Accounting Review Vol. 41 No. 4 1966

Multiple Regression Analysis of Cost Behavior.

George J. Benston

Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Rochester. 1

Abstract

The article discusses the applications and limitations of multiple regression analysis on cost behavior. The author asserts that regression analysis is not only a valuable tool but a method made available, inexpensive and easy to use by computers. When one considers that costs often are caused by many different factors whose effects are not obvious, one recognizes the great possibilities of regression analysis. In addition, this method must not be used in cost situations where there is not an ongoing stationary relationship between cost and the variables upon which cost depend.

DOI
10.2308/tar-4508381
Volume
41
Issue
4
Pages
657-672
Language
en
Sources
openalex crossref

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