Peterson Foods manufactures pumpkin scones. For January 2014, it budgeted to purchase and use 15,000 pounds of
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Peterson Foods manufactures pumpkin scones. For January 2014, it budgeted to purchase and use 15,000 pounds of pumpkin at $ 0.89 a pound. Actual purchases and usage for January 2014 were 16,000 pounds at $ 0.82 a pound. Peterson budgeted for 60,000 pumpkin scones. Actual output was 60,800 pumpkin scones.
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1. Compute the flexible-budget variance.
2. Compute the price and efficiency variances.
3. Comment on the results for requirements 1 and 2 and provide a possible explanation for them.
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Cost Accounting A Managerial Emphasis
ISBN: 978-0133428704
15th edition
Authors: Charles T. Horngren, Srikant M. Datar, Madhav V. Rajan
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