Vaughan Company had a fantastic sales 3rd Quarter! Management had wanted to wait until quarter end to do a post mortem of the annual results and do some investigations if necessary. Letter "E" and "H" Help Please ENDING BALANCE NOT BALANCING, PROBLEM IS IN FIXED FOH AND VARIABLE FOH LETTER "E"

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Vaughan Company had a fantastic sales 3rd Quarter! Management had wanted to wait until quarter end to do a post mortem of the annual results and do some investigations if necessary. Here is what actually happened: Total sales were $2,029,000 for 40,000 units. Management failed to be able to buy enough direct materials to produce the required units for ending inventory nor to keep the required direct materials on hand for ending inventory requirements due to a shortage of WHAM during the quarter. Total Production for 3rd quarter was 40,000 units. Vaughan uses LIFO inventory method. Regarding WHAM, Vaughan purchased and used 230,000 pounds at a total cost of $163,300. Vaughan used 56,400 DLH (direct labor hours) to make the 40,000 units at a total labor cost of $905,220. Actual Variable FOH was $73,100 and actual Fixed FOH was $32,200. Even though Production ended up being 40,000 units, the cash borrowings indicated by the static budget dictated that Vaughan borrow money ($2,000) on the last day of July and they did so. They also paid it back at the end of the September as budgeted. Selling and Administrative expenses totaled $579,000. $239,000 was variable and the rest was fixed. We have not covered S&A variances, but never the less, the difference between what actually occurred and what should have happened (the flexible budget) can still be illuminating. In this Google Sheet: Vaughan Company had a fantastic sales 3rd Quarter! Management had wanted to wait until quarter end to do a post mortem of the annual results and do some investigations if necessary. Here is what actually happened: Total sales were $2,029,000 for 40,000 units. Management failed to be able to buy enough direct materials to produce the required units for ending inventory nor to keep the required direct materials on hand for ending inventory requirements due to a shortage of WHAM during the quarter. Total Production for 3rd quarter was 40,000 units. Vaughan uses LIFO inventory method. Regarding WHAM, Vaughan purchased and used 230,000 pounds at a total cost of $163,300. Vaughan used 56,400 DLH (direct labor hours) to make the 40,000 units at a total labor cost of $905,220. Actual Variable FOH was $73,100 and actual Fixed FOH was $32,200. Even though Production ended up being 40,000 units, the cash borrowings indicated by the static budget dictated that Vaughan borrow money ($2,000) on the last day of July and they did so. They also paid it back at the end of the September as budgeted. Selling and Administrative expenses totaled $579,000. $239,000 was variable and the rest was fixed. We have not covered S&A variances, but never the less, the difference between what actually occurred and what should have happened (the flexible budget) can still be illuminating. In this Google Sheet:

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