Castle Lager has just purchased the Jacksonville Brewery. The brewery is two years old and uses absorption costing. It will "sell" its product to Castle Lager at $47 per barrel. Peter Bryant, Castle Lager's controller, obtains the following information about Jacksonville Brewery's capacity and budgeted fixed manufacturing costs for 2017: Home Insert Page Layout Formulas Data Review View Budgeted Fixed Manufacturing Overhead per Period $27,900,000 $27,900,000 $27,900,000 Days of Production Production per Period Hours of Denominator-Level Capacity Concept 4 Theoretical capacity 5 Practical capacity 6 Normal capacity utilization Master-budget capacity utilization 7 for each half year: (a) January-June 2017 (b) July-December 2017 Barrels per Hour 545 per Day 358 22 348 20 510 348 20 410 $13,950,000 $13,950,000 174 20 315 174 20 505
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.
Compute the budgeted fixed manufacturing
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