castern Chemical Company produces three products. The operating results of the current year are: Actual Price $ 292.00 261.60 316.00 Sales Product Quantity A B C 1,350 6,750 675 Target Price $ 291.00 303.60 208.50 Direct materials Direct labor Total prime cost The firm sets the target price of each product at 150% of the product's total manufacturing cost. It appears that the firm was able to sell Product C at a much higher price than the target price of the product and lost money on Product B. Tom Watson, CEO, wants to promote Product C much more aggressively and phase out Product B. He believes that the information suggests that Product C has he greatest potential among the firm's three products because the actual selling price of Product C was almost 50% higher than the arget price, while the firm was forced to sell Product B at a price below the target price. Both the budgeted and actual factory overhead for the current year are $648,600. The actual units sold for each product also are the same as the budgeted units. The firm uses direct labor dollars to assign manufacturing overhead costs. The direct materials and direct abor costs per unit for each product are: Difference $ 1.00 (42.00) $ 107.50 Product A $ 56.00 26.00 $ 82.00 Number of setups Weight of direct materials (pounds) Waste and hazardous disposals Quality inspections Utilities (machine hours) Total Product B $ 120.40 18.00 $ 138.40 The controller noticed that not all products consumed factory overhead similarly. Upon further investigation, she identified the ollowing usage of factory overhead during the year: Product C $ 71.00 13.50 $84.50 Product A 3 406 31 36 2,700 Product B 6 256 51 41 7,600 Product C 4 356 36 41 1,350 Total Overhead $ 9,600 148,500 337,500 81,000 72,000 $ 648,600
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.
Do not give solution in image format thanku



Trending now
This is a popular solution!
Step by step
Solved in 4 steps with 3 images









