Comprehensive flexible budget, standards, and variances problem (Learning Objectives 2, 3,4, 5)

One System assembles PCs and uses flexible budgeting and a standard cost system. One System allocates overhead based on the number of direct materials parts. The company’s performance report includes the following selected data:

Requirements 1. Determine the company’s standard cost for one unit.
2. Prepare a flexible budget based on the actual number of PCs sold.
3. Compute the price variance for direct materials and for direct labor.
4. Compute the efficiency variances for direct materials and direct labor.
5. For manufacturing overhead, compute the total variance, the flexible budget variance, and the production volume variance.
6. What is the total flexible budget variance for One System’s manufacturing costs? Show how the total flexible budget variance is divided into materials, labor, and overhead variances.
7. Have One System’s managers done a good job or a poor job controlling material and labor costs? Why?
8. Describe how One System’s managers can benefit from the standard costing system.

Static Budget Actual Results (20,000 PCs) (22,000 PCs) Sales (20,000 PCs x $400) $8,000,000 (22,000 PCs x $420).............. $9,240,000 Variable manufacturing expenses: Direct materials (200,000 parts x $10.00) 2,000,000 (214,200 parts x $9.80).................. 2,099,160 Direct labor (40,000 hr x $14.00).................. 560,000 (42,500 hr x $14.60). 620,500 Variable overhead (200,000 parts x $4.00)...... 800,000 (214,200 parts x $4.10)............. 878,220 Fixed manufacturing expenses: Fixed overhead............ Total cost of goods sold.. Gross profit............. 900,000 930,000 4,260,000 4,527,880 $3,740,000 $4,712,120