Direct Materials Variances Silicone Engine Inc. produces wrist-worn tablet computers. The company uses Thin Film Crystal (TFC) LCD displays for its products. Each tablet uses one display. The company produced 550 tablets during December. However, due to LCD defects, the company actually used 600 LCD displays during December. Each display has a standard cost of $6.40. LCD displays were purchased for December production at a cost of $3,660. Determine the price variance, quantity variance, and total direct materials cost variance for December. Enter a favorable variance as a negative number using a minus sign and an unfavorable variance as a positive number. And, enter your final variance amounts to the nearest whole dollar. Find: Price variance Quantity variance Total Direct materials cost variance
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.
Direct Materials Variances
Silicone Engine Inc. produces wrist-worn tablet computers. The company uses Thin Film Crystal (TFC) LCD displays for its products. Each tablet uses one display. The company produced 550 tablets during December. However, due to LCD defects, the company actually used 600 LCD displays during December. Each display has a standard cost of $6.40. LCD displays were purchased for December production at a cost of $3,660.
Determine the price variance, quantity variance, and total direct materials cost variance for December. Enter a favorable variance as a negative number using a minus sign and an unfavorable variance as a positive number. And, enter your final variance amounts to the nearest whole dollar.
Find:
Price variance
Quantity variance
Total Direct materials cost variance
Answer:-
1. Price variance = (Actual price - Standard price) x Actual quantity
2. Quantity variance = (Actual quantity - Standard quantity) x Standard price
3. Direct materials cost variance = Price variance - Quantity variance
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