Question

Clark’s Cleaners is a housekeeping service. The company’s expenses include the

Answer 1

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- Finish a textbook problem (please paste the rest), or
- Classify typical Clark’s Cleaners expenses as fixed, variable, or mixed, or
- Prepare an income/cost report, or compute break-even/profit if you give numbers?

If you mean classification, here are common housekeeping-service expenses and how they’re usually treated:

- Cleaning supplies (detergents, cloths): variable (cost rises with jobs)
- Direct labor (housekeepers’ wages paid per job or hourly): variable if paid by job/hours; could be mixed if there’s a salary component
- Travel/fuel for staff vehicles: variable (per job/miles) or mixed if there’s a monthly vehicle allowance + per-mile cost
- Rent for office/storage: fixed
- Insurance (liability, workers’ comp): fixed (periodic premiums)
- Utilities (electricity, phone): often mixed (base charge fixed + usage variable)
- Advertising/marketing: usually fixed (budgeted), though some campaigns vary with volume
- Equipment depreciation (vacuum cleaners, machines): fixed (straight-line) or allocated as fixed overhead
- Uniforms/laundry: semi-variable (periodic replacement plus per-use cleaning)
- Administrative salaries (manager, receptionist): fixed

If you paste the full problem or tell me what you need (classification, break-even, cost-volume-profit, or an income statement), I’ll finish it.