Sweeten Company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginning inventories. The company has two manufacturing departments-Molding and Fabrication. It started, completed, and sold only two jobs during March- Job P and Job Q. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Jobs P and Q (all data and questions relate to the month of March): Estimated total machine-hours used Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour Direct materials Direct labor cost. Actual machine-hours used: Molding Fabrication Total Job P $22,000 $28,200 2,600 1,500 4,100 Job Q $12,500 $11,100 1,700 1,800 3,500 Molding Fabrication Total 2,500 1,500 4,000 $12,250 $16,350 $28,600 $ 2.30 $ 3.10 Sweeten Company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month. Required: For questions 1-8, assume that Sweeten Company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base. For questions 9-15, assume that the company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the allocation base in both departments.
Variance Analysis
In layman's terms, variance analysis is an analysis of a difference between planned and actual behavior. Variance analysis is mainly used by the companies to maintain a control over a business. After analyzing differences, companies find the reasons for the variance so that the necessary steps should be taken to correct that variance.
Standard Costing
The standard cost system is the expected cost per unit product manufactured and it helps in estimating the deviations and controlling them as well as fixing the selling price of the product. For example, it helps to plan the cost for the coming year on the various expenses.
12. Job P included 20 units, what was its unit product cost?
13. If Job Q included 30 units, what was its unit product cost?
14. Assume that Sweeten Company used cost-plus pricing (and a markup percentage of 80% of total
15. What was Sweeten Company’s cost of goods sold for March?
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