Affordable Electronics Inc. manufactures medium-quality, reasonably priced wireless speakers for home use. The company uses standards to control its costs. The labour standards that have been set for one speaker are as follows: Standard Rate Standard per Hour $19.00 Standard Hours Cost 12 minutes (0.20 hours) $3.80 During July, 3,850 hours of direct labour time were recorded to make 18,000 units. The direct labour cost totalled $74,305 for the month.
Process Costing
Process costing is a sort of operation costing which is employed to determine the value of a product at each process or stage of producing process, applicable where goods produced from a series of continuous operations or procedure.
Job Costing
Job costing is adhesive costs of each and every job involved in the production processes. It is an accounting measure. It is a method which determines the cost of specific jobs, which are performed according to the consumer’s specifications. Job costing is possible only in businesses where the production is done as per the customer’s requirement. For example, some customers order to manufacture furniture as per their needs.
ABC Costing
Cost Accounting is a form of managerial accounting that helps the company in assessing the total variable cost so as to compute the cost of production. Cost accounting is generally used by the management so as to ensure better decision-making. In comparison to financial accounting, cost accounting has to follow a set standard ad can be used flexibly by the management as per their needs. The types of Cost Accounting include – Lean Accounting, Standard Costing, Marginal Costing and Activity Based Costing.
![2. Break down the difference in cost from requirement 1-b above into a labour rate variance and a labour efficiency variance. (Indicate
the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favourable, "U" for unfavourable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance).)
Labour rate variance
1,155 U
Labour efficiency variance
3. The budgeted variable manufacturing overhead rate is $3.00 per direct labour-hour. During July, the company incurred $11,935 in
variable manufacturing overhead cost. Compute the variable overhead spending and efficiency variances for the month. (Indicate the
effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favourable, "U" for unfavourable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance).)
Variable overhead spending variance
Variable overhead efficiency variance](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F2758076a-5052-4edb-9c62-aa6735155c8a%2Feffb0b8e-d59c-4826-ae73-7de4cbb04693%2Foihiwf_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
![Affordable Electronics Inc. manufactures medium-quality, reasonably priced wireless speakers for home use. The company uses
standards to control its costs. The labour standards that have been set for one speaker are as follows:
Standard Rate
Standard
per Hour
$19.00
Standard Hours
Cost
12 minutes (0.20 hours)
$3.80
During July, 3,850 hours of direct labour time were recorded to make 18,000 units. The direct labour cost totalled $74,305 for the
month.](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F2758076a-5052-4edb-9c62-aa6735155c8a%2Feffb0b8e-d59c-4826-ae73-7de4cbb04693%2Ffnxe5hh_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
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