Practice FOG Cost Calculation - 3.2.2 | 12. Equipment cost – Caterpillar and Peurifoy method | Construction Engineering & Management - Vol 1
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FOG Cost Calculation

3.2.2 - FOG Cost Calculation

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What does FOG stand for?

💡 Hint: Think about consumables for machinery.

Question 2 Easy

How do you calculate hourly depreciation?

💡 Hint: Recall the formula shared in class.

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Question 1

What does FOG stand for?

Fuel
Oil
Grease
Filter
Oil
Grease
Filter
Oil
Gas

💡 Hint: Consider the essential maintenance items.

Question 2

True or False: The Peurifoy method ignores the time value of money.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about the importance of cash flow timings.

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Challenge 1 Hard

A construction company is deciding between two excavators. Excavator A has an initial cost of $250,000, a salvage value of $25,000, and an expected life of 15,000 hours. Excavator B has an initial cost of $300,000, a salvage value of $30,000, and 10,000 hours of expected life. Calculate the hourly depreciation for both and determine which is more cost-effective in terms of depreciation.

💡 Hint: Use the depreciation formula you learned to analyze both options.

Challenge 2 Hard

If an equipment's FOG needs to be calculated with 0.15 as a FOG factor and the calculated fuel cost is $80 per hour, what will be the hourly cost for FOG?

💡 Hint: Multiply the FOG factor by the total fuel cost to find the answer.

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