Marvel Parts, Incorporated, manufactures auto accessories. One of the company's products is a set of seat covers that can be adjusted to fit nearly any small car. The company has a standard cost system in use for all of its products. According to the standards that have been set for the seat covers, the factory should work 1,065 hours each month to produce 2,130 sets of covers. The standard costs associated with this level of production are: Direct materials Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead (based on direct labor-hours) Total $ 35,358 $ 8,528 $ 3,195 Direct materials (6,000 yards) Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead Per Set of Covers $ 16.68 4.00 During August, the factory worked only 1,050 direct labor-hours and produced 2.700 sets of covers. The following actual costs were recorded during the month: Total $ 43,740 $ 11,340 $ 5,678 1.50 $ 22.10 Per Set of Covers $16.20 4.20 2.10 $ 22.50 At standard, each set of covers should require 2.0 yards of material. All of the materials purchased during the month were used in production. Required: 1, Compute the materials price and quantity variances for August. 2. Compute the labor rate and efficiency variances for August 3. Compute the variable overhead rate and efficiency variances for August

Salley is developing material and labor standards for her company. She finds that it costs $0.55 per pound of material per widget. Each widget requires 6 pounds of material per widget. Salley is also working with the operations manager to determine what the standard labor cost is for a widget. Upon observation, Salley notes that it takes 3 hours in the assembly department and 1 hour in the finishing department to complete one widget. All employees are paid $10.50 per hour. A. What is the standard materials cost per unit for a widget? 8. What is the standard labor cost per unit for a widget?

Andalus Furniture Company has two manufacturing plants, one at Aynor and another at Spartanburg. The cost in dollars of producing a kitchen chair at each of the two plants is given here. The cost of producing Q1 chairs at Aynor is: 75Q1+5Q12+100 and the cost of producing Q2 kitchen chairs at Spartanburg is: 25Q2+2.5Q22+150. Andalus needs to manufacture a total of 40 kitchen chairs to meet an order just received. How many chairs should be made at Aynor, and how many should be made at Spartanburg in order to minimize total production cost?

Evans, Inc., has a unit-based costing system. Evanss Miami plant produces 10 different electronic products. The demand for each product is about the same. Although they differ in complexity, each product uses about the same labor time and materials. The plant has used direct labor hours for years to assign overhead to products. To help design engineers understand the assumed cost relationships, the Cost Accounting Department developed the following cost equation. (The equation describes the relationship between total manufacturing costs and direct labor hours; the equation is supported by a coefficient of determination of 60 percent.) Y=5,000,000+30X,whereX=directlaborhours The variable rate of 30 is broken down as follows: Because of competitive pressures, product engineering was given the charge to redesign products to reduce the total cost of manufacturing. Using the above cost relationships, product engineering adopted the strategy of redesigning to reduce direct labor content. As each design was completed, an engineering change order was cut, triggering a series of events such as design approval, vendor selection, bill of materials update, redrawing of schematic, test runs, changes in setup procedures, development of new inspection procedures, and so on. After one year of design changes, the normal volume of direct labor was reduced from 250,000 hours to 200,000 hours, with the same number of products being produced. Although each product differs in its labor content, the redesign efforts reduced the labor content for all products. On average, the labor content per unit of product dropped from 1.25 hours per unit to one hour per unit. Fixed overhead, however, increased from 5,000,000 to 6,600,000 per year. Suppose that a consultant was hired to explain the increase in fixed overhead costs. The consultants study revealed that the 30 per hour rate captured the unit-level variable costs; however, the cost behavior of other activities was quite different. For example, setting up equipment is a step-fixed cost, where each step is 2,000 setup hours, costing 90,000. The study also revealed that the cost of receiving goods is a function of the number of different components. This activity has a variable cost of 2,000 per component type and a fixed cost that follows a step-cost pattern. The step is defined by 20 components with a cost of 50,000 per step. Assume also that the consultant indicated that the design adopted by the engineers increased the demand for setups from 20,000 setup hours to 40,000 setup hours and the number of different components from 100 to 250. The demand for other non-unit-level activities remained unchanged. The consultant also recommended that management take a look at a rejected design for its products. This rejected design increased direct labor content from 250,000 hours to 260,000 hours, decreased the demand for setups from 20,000 hours to 10,000 hours, and decreased the demand for purchasing from 100 component types to 75 component types, while the demand for all other activities remained unchanged. Required: 1. Using normal volume, compute the manufacturing cost per labor hour before the year of design changes. What is the cost per unit of an average product? 2. Using normal volume after the one year of design changes, compute the manufacturing cost per hour. What is the cost per unit of an average product? 3. Before considering the consultants study, what do you think is the most likely explanation for the failure of the design changes to reduce manufacturing costs? Now use the information from the consultants study to explain the increase in the average cost per unit of product. What changes would you suggest to improve Evanss efforts to reduce costs? 4. Explain why the consultant recommended a second look at a rejected design. Provide computational support. What does this tell you about the strategic importance of cost management?

Patz Company produces two types of machine parts: Part A and Part B, with unit contribution margins of 300 and 600, respectively. Assume initially that Patz can sell all that is produced of either component. Part A requires two hours of assembly, and B requires five hours of assembly. The firm has 300 assembly hours per week. Required: 1. Express the objective of maximizing the total contribution margin subject to the assembly-hour constraint. 2. Identify the optimal amount that should be produced of each machine part and the total contribution margin associated with this mix. 3. What if market conditions are such that Patz can sell at most 75 units of Part A and 60 units of Part B? Express the objective function with its associated constraints for this case and identify the optimal mix and its associated total contribution margin.

Marvel Parts, Incorporated, manufactures auto accessories. One of the company's products is a set of seat covers that can be adjusted to fit nearly any small car. The company has a standard cost system in use for all of its products. According to the standards that have been set for the seat covers, the factory should work 1,010 hours each month to produce 2,020 sets of covers. The standard costs associated with this level of production are: Direct materials Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead (based on direct labor-hours) Direct materials (8,100 yards) Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead Total $36,360 $7,070 $ 3,030 During August, the factory worked only 1,080 direct labor-hours and produced 2,700 sets of covers. The following actual costs were recorded during the month: Per Set of Covers $18.00 3.50 Total $ 46,980 $ 9,990 $ 4,590 1. Materials price variance 1. Materials quantity variance 2. Labor rate variance 1.50 $23.00 2. Labor efficiency variance 3. Variable…

Marvel Parts, Incorporated, manufactures auto accessories. One of the company's products is a set of seat covers that can be adjusted to fit nearly any small car. The company has a standard cost system in use for all of its products. According to the standards that have been set for the seat covers, the factory should work 1,005 hours each month to produce 2,010 sets of covers. The standard costs associated with this level of production are: Direct materials Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead (based on direct labor-hours) Direct materials (6,000 yards) Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead Total $28,542 $ 8,040 $ 3,618 During August, the factory worked only 1,200 direct labor-hours and produced 2,600 sets of covers. The following actual costs were recorded during the month: Per Set of Covers $ 14.20 4.00 Total $ 35,100 $ 10,920 $ 5,460 1. Materials price variance 1. Materials quantity variance 2. Labor rate variance 1.80 $ 20.00 2. Labor efficiency variance 3. Variable…

Marvel Parts, Incorporated, manufactures auto accessories. One of the company's products is a set of seat covers that can be adjusted to fit nearly any small car. The company has a standard cost system in use for all of its products. According to the standards that have been set for the seat covers, the factory should work 1,045 hours each month to produce 2,090 sets of covers. The standard costs associated with this level of production are: Direct materials Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead (based on direct labor-hours) Direct materials (6,500 yards) Direct labor Variable manufacturing overhead Total $ 49,533 $ 10,450 $ 4,598 1. Materials price variance 1. Materials quantity variance 2. Labor rate variance 2. Labor efficiency variance 3. Variable overhead rate variance 3. Variable overhead efficiency variance Per Set of Covers $ During August, the factory worked only 800 direct labor-hours and produced 1,900 sets of covers. The following actual costs were recorded during…

Marvel Parts, Incorporated, manufactures auto accessories. One of the company’s products is a set of seat covers that can be adjusted to fit nearly any small car. The company uses a standard cost system for all of its products. According to the standards that have been set for the seat covers, the factory should work 1,020 hours each month to produce 2,040 sets of covers. The standard costs associated with this level of production are:     Total Per Set of Covers Direct materials $ 37,740 $ 18.50 Direct labor $ 9,180 4.50 Variable manufacturing overhead (based on direct labor-hours) $ 2,448 1.20     $ 24.20   During August, the factory worked only 1,000 direct labor-hours and produced 2,900 sets of covers. The following actual costs were recorded during the month:     Total Per Set of Covers Direct materials (9,100 yards) $ 52,780 $ 18.20 Direct labor $ 13,630 4.70 Variable manufacturing overhead $ 4,640 1.60     $ 24.50   At standard, each set of covers…

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