Modern Tiles Ltd. manufactures ceramic tiles. For January 2017, it budgeted to purchase and use 10,000 pounds
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Modern Tiles Ltd. manufactures ceramic tiles. For January 2017, it budgeted to purchase and use 10,000 pounds of clay at $0.70 a pound. Actual purchases and usage for January 2017 were 11,000 pounds at $0.65 a pound. Modern Tiles Ltd. budgeted for 40,000 ceramic tiles. The actual output was 43,000 ceramic tiles.
Required:
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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