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Arbot Co. manufactures appliances at three manufacturing facilities in the United States. Each location has a plant manager who oversees the manufacturing process for that location. Segmented income statements are prepared for each plant and each product manufactured in the plant. The salary of each plant manager is a traceable fixed cost to the plant and a common fixed cost for the individual product lines made in the plant.
The traceable fixed cost for a corporation means that this cost has a relationship between cost and effect related to a particular area or region of the country, or related to a process just operated in a specific location. This traceable fixed cost is part of the equation because there is a peculiar business that includes it. Or there is a necessity to be covered.
