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Durham Company uses a responsibility reporting system. It has divisions in Denver, Seattle, and San Diego. Each division has three production departments: Cutting, Shaping, and Finishing. The responsibility for each department rests with a manager who reports to the division production manager. Each division manager reports to the vice president of production. There are also vice presidents for marketing and finance. All vice presidents report to the president. In January 2020, controllable actual and budget manufacturing overhead cost data for the departments and divisions were as shown below.

Manufacturing Overhead

Actual

Budget

Individual costsCutting DepartmentSeattle
Indirect labor

$73,000

$69,700

Indirect materials

48,200

45,800

Maintenance

20,700

17,800

Utilities

20,100

16,800

Supervision

22,400

19,900

$184,400

$170,000

Total costs
Shaping DepartmentSeattle $157,700 $148,000
Finishing DepartmentSeattle 210,000 203,600
Denver division 678,300 672,700
San Diego division 721,900 715,000

Additional overhead costs were incurred as follows: Seattle division production manageractual costs $52,500, budget $51,000; vice president of productionactual costs $65,000, budget $63,500; presidentactual costs $76,700, budget $74,300. These expenses are not allocated. The vice presidents who report to the president, other than the vice president of production, had the following expenses.

Vice President

Actual

Budget

Marketing $133,200 $129,700
Finance 109,300 104,900

Prepare the Manufacturing overheadCutting Department managerSeattle division responsibility report.

To Cutting Department ManagerSeattle Division

Month: January

Controllable Costs:

Budget

Actual

Favorable Unfavorable Neither Favorable nor Unfavorable

Direct LaborDirect MaterialsIndirect LaborIndirect MaterialsMaintenancePresidentSeattle Division Production ManagerSupervisionUtilitiesVice President of ProductionCuttingShapingFinishingSeattleDenverSan DiegoPrductionMarketingFinance

$

$

$

FavorableUnfavorableNeither Favorable nor Unfavorable

Direct LaborDirect MaterialsIndirect LaborIndirect MaterialsMaintenancePresidentSeattle Division Production ManagerSupervisionUtilitiesVice President of ProductionCuttingShapingFinishingSeattleDenverSan DiegoPrductionMarketingFinance

UnfavorableNeither Favorable nor UnfavorableFavorable

Direct LaborDirect MaterialsIndirect LaborIndirect MaterialsMaintenancePresidentSeattle Division Production ManagerSupervisionUtilitiesVice President of ProductionCuttingShapingFinishingSeattleDenverSan DiegoPrductionMarketingFinance

Neither Favorable nor UnfavorableFavorableUnfavorable

Direct LaborDirect MaterialsIndirect LaborIndirect MaterialsMaintenancePresidentSeattle Division Production ManagerSupervisionUtilitiesVice President of ProductionCuttingShapingFinishingSeattleDenverSan DiegoPrductionMarketingFinance

Neither Favorable nor UnfavorableFavorableUnfavorable

Direct LaborDirect MaterialsIndirect LaborIndirect MaterialsMaintenancePresidentSeattle Division Production ManagerSupervisionUtilitiesVice President of ProductionCuttingShapingFinishingSeattleDenverSan DiegoPrductionMarketingFinance

UnfavorableNeither Favorable nor UnfavorableFavorable

Total

$

$

$

FavorableUnfavorableNeither Favorable nor Unfavorable

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