Miller Toy Company manufactures a plastic swimming pool at its Westwood Plant. The plant has...

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Miller Toy Company manufactures a plastic swimming pool at its Westwood Plant. The plant has been experiencing problems as shown by its June contribution format income statement below:

Flexible Budget Actual
Sales (6,000 pools) $ 225,000 $ 225,000
Variable expenses:
Variable cost of goods sold* 73,620 88,700
Variable selling expenses

17,000

17,000
Total variable expenses

90,620

105,700
Contribution margin

134,380

119,300
Fixed expenses:
Manufacturing overhead 53,000 53,000
Selling and administrative 68,000 68,000
Total fixed expenses

121,000

121,000
Net operating income (loss) $ 13,380 $

(1,700

)

*Contains direct materials, direct labor, and variable manufacturing overhead.

Janet Dunn, who has just been appointed general manager of the Westwood Plant, has been given instructions to get things under control. Upon reviewing the plants income statement, Ms. Dunn has concluded that the major problem lies in the variable cost of goods sold. She has been provided with the following standard cost per swimming pool:

Standard Quantity or Hours Standard Price or Rate Standard Cost
Direct materials 3.3 pounds $

2.30

per pound $ 7.59
Direct labor 0.6 hours $

6.30

per hour 3.78
Variable manufacturing overhead 0.5 hours* $

1.80

per hour

0.90

Total standard cost per unit $ 12.27

*Based on machine-hours.

During June, the plant produced 6,000 pools and incurred the following costs:

  1. Purchased 24,800 pounds of materials at a cost of $2.75 per pound.
  2. Used 19,600 pounds of materials in production. (Finished goods and work in process inventories are insignificant and can be ignored.)

  3. Worked 4,200 direct labor-hours at a cost of $6.00 per hour.

  4. Incurred variable manufacturing overhead cost totaling $7,260 for the month. A total of 3,300 machine-hours was recorded.

It is the companys policy to close all variances to cost of goods sold on a monthly basis.

Required:

1. Compute the following variances for June:

a. Materials price and quantity variances.

b. Labor rate and efficiency variances.

c. Variable overhead rate and efficiency variances.

2. Summarize the variances that you computed in (1) above by showing the net overall favorable or unfavorable variance for the month.

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Required 1 Required 2 1a. Compute the following variances for June, materials price and quantity variances. 1b. Compute the following variances for June, labor rate and efficiency variances. 1c. Compute the following variances for June, variable overhead rate and efficiency variances. (Do not round your intermediate calculations. Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive values.) Show less 1a. Material price variance Material quantity variance 1b. Labor rate variance Labor efficiency variance 1c. Variable overhead rate variance Variable overhead efficiency variance Required 1 Required 2 Summarize the variances that you computed in (1) above by showing the net overall favorable or unfavorable variance for the month. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive values.) Net variance

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