MacGyver Corporation manufactures a product called Miracle Goo, which comes in handy for Just about anything....

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MacGyver Corporation manufactures a product called Miracle Goo, which comes in handy for Just about anything. The thick tarry substance is sold in six-gallon drums. Two raw materlals are used; these are referred to by people In the business as A and B. Two types of labor are required also. These are mixers (labor class I) and packers (labor class li). You were recently hired by the company president, Pete Thorn, to be the controller. You soon learned that MacGyver uses a standard-costing system. Varlances are computed and closed Into Cost of Goods Sold monthly. After your first month on the job, you gathered the necessary data to compute the month's varlances for direct material and direct labor. You finished everything up by 5:00 p.m. on the 31st, Including the credit to Cost of Goods Sold for the sum of the varlances. You decided to take all your notes home to review them prior to your formal presentation to Thorn first thing In the moming. As an afterthought, you grabbed a drum of Miracle Goo as well, thinking it could prove useful in some unanticipated way. You spent the evening boning up on the data for your report and were ready to call it a night. As luck would have It though, you knocked over the Miracle Goo as you rose from the kitchen table. The stuff splattered everywhere, and, most unfortunately. obliterated most of your notes. All that remalned legible is the following informatlon. Direct Materlal B: Purchase Price Varlance Direct Material A: Quantity Varlance 2,100 1,500 Direct Labor E Rate Varlance Direct Labor II: Efficlency Varlance 500 1,500 Cost of Goods Sold Accounts Payable 145,000 1.500 Beg. bal. 73,000 86,500 15.000 End. bal. 1,185 Other assorted data gleaned from your notes: The standards for each drum of Miracle Goo Include 12 pounds of material A at a standard price of $6 per pound. · The standard cost of materlal B Is $12 for each drum of Miracle Goo. · Purchases of material A were 10,000 pounds at $5.50 per pound. • Given the actual output for the month, the standard allowed quantity of matertal A was 19.200 pounds. The standard allowed quantity of materlal B was 4,800 gallons. . Although 7,500 gallons of B were purchased, only 4,600 gallons were used. · The standard wage rate for mixers Is $12 per hour. The standard labor cost per drum of product for mixers is $36 per drum. • The standards allow 3 hours of direct labor II (packers) per drum of Miracle Goo. The standard labor cost per drum of product for packers Is $36 per drum. · Packers were pald $1.80 per hour during the month. You happened to remember two additional facts. There were no beginning or ending Inventories of elther work in process or finished goods for the month. The increase in accounts payable relates to direct-materlal purchases only. Now you have a major problem. Somehow you've got to reconstruct all the missing data in order to be ready for your meeting with the president. You start by making the a list of the facts you want to use in your presentation. Before getting down to business, you need a brief walk to clear your head. Out to the trash you go, and toss the remalning Miracle Goo. 3. Compute the following amounts related to direct labor at MacGyver for the month. (Indicate the effect of each varlance by selecting "Favorable" or "Unfavorable". Select "None" and enter "0" for no effect (L.e., zero varlance). Round "Standard rate per hour" "Standard cost per drum" and "Actual rate per hour" to 2 decimal places.) I (mixers) |hours Direct Labor Il (packers) Standard hours per drum Standard rate per hour hours Standard cost per drum Standard quantity allowed, given actual output Actual rate per hour Actual hours hours hours hours hours Rate variance Efficiency variance MacGyver Corporation manufactures a product called Miracle Goo, which comes in handy for Just about anything. The thick tarry substance is sold in six-gallon drums. Two raw materlals are used; these are referred to by people In the business as A and B. Two types of labor are required also. These are mixers (labor class I) and packers (labor class li). You were recently hired by the company president, Pete Thorn, to be the controller. You soon learned that MacGyver uses a standard-costing system. Varlances are computed and closed Into Cost of Goods Sold monthly. After your first month on the job, you gathered the necessary data to compute the month's varlances for direct material and direct labor. You finished everything up by 5:00 p.m. on the 31st, Including the credit to Cost of Goods Sold for the sum of the varlances. You decided to take all your notes home to review them prior to your formal presentation to Thorn first thing In the moming. As an afterthought, you grabbed a drum of Miracle Goo as well, thinking it could prove useful in some unanticipated way. You spent the evening boning up on the data for your report and were ready to call it a night. As luck would have It though, you knocked over the Miracle Goo as you rose from the kitchen table. The stuff splattered everywhere, and, most unfortunately. obliterated most of your notes. All that remalned legible is the following informatlon. Direct Materlal B: Purchase Price Varlance Direct Material A: Quantity Varlance 2,100 1,500 Direct Labor E Rate Varlance Direct Labor II: Efficlency Varlance 500 1,500 Cost of Goods Sold Accounts Payable 145,000 1.500 Beg. bal. 73,000 86,500 15.000 End. bal. 1,185 Other assorted data gleaned from your notes: The standards for each drum of Miracle Goo Include 12 pounds of material A at a standard price of $6 per pound. · The standard cost of materlal B Is $12 for each drum of Miracle Goo. · Purchases of material A were 10,000 pounds at $5.50 per pound. • Given the actual output for the month, the standard allowed quantity of matertal A was 19.200 pounds. The standard allowed quantity of materlal B was 4,800 gallons. . Although 7,500 gallons of B were purchased, only 4,600 gallons were used. · The standard wage rate for mixers Is $12 per hour. The standard labor cost per drum of product for mixers is $36 per drum. • The standards allow 3 hours of direct labor II (packers) per drum of Miracle Goo. The standard labor cost per drum of product for packers Is $36 per drum. · Packers were pald $1.80 per hour during the month. You happened to remember two additional facts. There were no beginning or ending Inventories of elther work in process or finished goods for the month. The increase in accounts payable relates to direct-materlal purchases only. Now you have a major problem. Somehow you've got to reconstruct all the missing data in order to be ready for your meeting with the president. You start by making the a list of the facts you want to use in your presentation. Before getting down to business, you need a brief walk to clear your head. Out to the trash you go, and toss the remalning Miracle Goo. 3. Compute the following amounts related to direct labor at MacGyver for the month. (Indicate the effect of each varlance by selecting "Favorable" or "Unfavorable". Select "None" and enter "0" for no effect (L.e., zero varlance). Round "Standard rate per hour" "Standard cost per drum" and "Actual rate per hour" to 2 decimal places.) I (mixers) |hours Direct Labor Il (packers) Standard hours per drum Standard rate per hour hours Standard cost per drum Standard quantity allowed, given actual output Actual rate per hour Actual hours hours hours hours hours Rate variance Efficiency variance

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