(Solved): At a seminar, a cost accountant spoke on the identification of different kinds of cost behavior. Mo ...

At a seminar, a cost accountant spoke on the identification of different kinds of cost behavior. Monica Thompson, a hospital administrator who heard the lecture, identified several hospital costs of concern to her. After her classification, Thompson presented you with the following list of costs and asked you to (1) classify its behavior as one of the following: 1. variable, 2. step, 3. mixed, or 4. fixed; (2) identify a likely cost driver for each variable or mixed cost( Health insurance for all full-time employees Costs of services of King Hospital Consulting Nursing supervisors' salaries (a supervisor is needed for each 45 nursing personnel) Operating costs of X-ray equipment ( \( \$ 95,000 \) a year plus \( \$ 3 \) per film) Repairs made on hospital furniture Straight-line depreciation of operating room equipment Choose Costs incurred by Dr. Rath in cancer research Training costs of an administrative resident