"Wonderful! Not only did our salespeople do a good job inmeeting the sales budget this year, but our production people did agood job in controlling costs as well,” said Kim Clark, presidentof Martell Company. “Our $26,250 overall manufacturing costvariance is only 2.5% of the $1,050,000 standard cost of productsmade during the year. That's well within the 3% parameter set bymanagement for acceptable variances. It looks like everyone will bein line for a bonus this year."
The company produces and sells a single product. The standardcost card for the product follows:
Inputs | (1) Standard Quantity or Hours | (2) Standard Price or Rate | Standard Cost (1) × (2) |
Direct materials | 4.00 feet | $ | 3.50 | per foot | $ | 14.00 | |
Direct labor | 1.5 hours | $ | 12 | per hour | | 18.00 | |
Variable overhead | 1.5 hours | $ | 2.00 | per hour | | 3.00 | |
Fixed overhead | 1.5 hours | $ | 6.00 | per hour | | 9.00 | |
Total standard cost per unit | | | | | $ | 44.00 | |
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The following additional information is available for the yearjust completed:
- The company manufactured 20,000 units of product during theyear.
- A total of 78,000 feet of material was purchased during theyear at a cost of $3.75 per foot. All of this material was used tomanufacture the 20,000 units produced. There were no beginning orending inventories for the year.
- The company worked 32,500 direct labor-hours during the year ata direct labor cost of $11.80 per hour.
- Overhead is applied to products on the basis of standard directlabor-hours. Data relating to manufacturing overhead costsfollow:
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Denominator activity level (direct labor-hours) | | 25,000 |
Budgeted fixed overhead costs | $ | 150,000 |
Actual variable overhead costs incurred | $ | 68,250 |
Actual fixed overhead costs incurred | $ | 148,000 |
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Required:
1. Compute the materials price and quantity variances for theyear.
2. Compute the labor rate and efficiency variances for theyear.
3. For manufacturing overhead compute:
a. The variable overhead rate and efficiency variances for theyear.
b. The fixed overhead budget and volume variances for theyear.