Mills, Inc. is a competitor of Murry, Inc. from Exercise E23-18. Mills also uses a standard cost

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Mills, Inc. is a competitor of Murry, Inc. from Exercise E23-18. Mills also uses a standard cost system and provides the following information:

Static budget variable overhead .......................... $ 1,200

Static budget fixed overhead ............................. $ 1,600

Static budget direct labor hours ...................... 800 hours

Static budget number of units ........................ 400 units

Standard direct labor hours ................... 2 hours per unit

Mills allocates manufacturing overhead to production based on standard direct labor hours. Mills reported the following actual results for 2018: actual number of units produced, 1,000; actual variable overhead, $4,000; actual fixed overhead, $3,100; actual direct labor hours, 1,600?

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1. Compute the variable overhead cost and efficiency variances and fixed overhead cost and volume variances.
2. Explain why the variances are favorable or unfavorable.


Refer in E23-18,

Murry, Inc. produced 1,000 units of the company's product in 2018. The standard quantity of direct materials was three yards of cloth per unit at a standard cost of $1.35 per yard. The accounting records showed that 2,500 yards of cloth were used and the company paid $1.40 per yard. Standard time was two direct labor hours per unit at a standard rate of $10.00 per direct labor hour. Employees worked 1,700 hours and were paid $9.50 per hour.

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Horngrens Accounting

ISBN: 978-0134674681

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Authors: Tracie L. Miller nobles, Brenda L. Mattison, Ella Mae Matsumura

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