Amherst Plant Per lot Direct materials Direct manufacturing labor 2.5 hrs. @ $12.00 per hr. 2.4 hrs. @ $12.20 per hr. 2.4 hrs. @ $10.50 per hr. Variable overhead Providence Plant 74 Ibs. @ $3.20 per Ib. 76.5 Ibs. @ S$3.10 per Ib. 70 Ibs. @ $2.90 per Ib. Beverage Mate $20 per lot S22 per lot $20 per lot 1. What is the budgeted variable cost per lot at the Providence Plant, the Amherst Plant, and at Beverage Mate? 2. Using the Beverage Mate data as the standard, calculate the direct materials and direct manufacturing labor price and efficiency variances for the Providence and Amherst plants. 3. What advantage does Nantucket get by using Beverage Mate's benchmark data as standards in cal- culating its variances? Identify two issues that Bryant should keep in mind in using the Beverage Mate data as the standards. Required
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.
Price and efficiency variances, benchmarking. Nantucket Enterprises manufactures insulated cold beverage cups printed with college and corporate logos, which it distributes nationally in lots of 12 dozen cups. In June 2017, Nantucket produced 5,000 lots of its most popular line of cups, the 24-ounce lidded tumbler, at each of its two plants, which are located in Providence and Amherst. The production manager, Shannon Bryant, asks her assistant, Joel Hudson, to nd out the precise per-unit budgeted variable costs at the two plants and the variable costs of a competitor, Beverage Mate, who offers similar-quality tumblers at cheaper prices. Hudson pulls together the following information for each lot:
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