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Wonderful Not only did our salespeople do a good job in meeting the sales budget this year, but our production people did a good job in controlling costs as well, said Kim Clark, president of Martell Company. Our $ overall manufacturing cost variance is only of the $ standard cost of products made during the year. Thats well within the parameter set by management for acceptable variances. It looks like everyone will be in line for a bonus this year.
The company produces and sells a single product with a standard cost card as follows:
Inputs Standard Quantity or Hours Standard Price or RateStandard Cost Direct materialsfeet$ per foot$ Direct laborhours$ per hourVariable overheadhours$ per hourFixed overheadhours$ per hourTotal standard cost per unit$
The following additional information is available for the year just completed:
The company manufactured units during the year.
A total of feet of material was purchased during the year at a cost of $ per foot. All of this material was used to manufacture the units produced. There were no beginning or ending inventories.
The company worked direct laborhours at a direct labor cost of $ per hour.
Overhead is applied to products based on standard direct laborhours. Data relating to manufacturing overhead costs follow:
Denominator activity level direct laborhoursBudgeted fixed overhead costs$ Actual variable overhead costs incurred$ Actual fixed overhead costs incurred$
Required:
Compute the materials price and quantity variances.
Compute the labor rate and efficiency variances.
For manufacturing overhead compute:
The variable overhead rate and efficiency variances.The fixed overhead budget and volume variances.
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