Problem 6.1: In August, Phelps produced 5,000 award medals, 100 more than expected. During the month, the company purchased 1,100 ounces of gold for $875,000. Material standards per medal: 0.21 ounces @ $800 per ounce. The company actually used 1,000 ounces of gold for production. Calculate direct materials price and quantity variances.
Problem 6.1: In August, Phelps produced 5,000 award medals, 100 more than expected. During the month, the company purchased 1,100 ounces of gold for $875,000. Material standards per medal: 0.21 ounces @ $800 per ounce. The company actually used 1,000 ounces of gold for production. Calculate direct materials price and quantity variances.
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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.
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Transcribed Image Text:Little Table of Information (L'TOI)
The table reminds you about the difference between finished units (sales volume) and resources units used to produce those sales.
Also, BOTH the +2 and SQ must reflect the actual and standard (planned) resource units needed to produce the actual sales volume.
Little Table of
Information (L'TOI)
Flexible
Budget
Actual
Actual Finished Units (FU) Sold
17,000
17,000
x Resource Units per FU
1.00
1.50
= Total Resource Units (RU)
(SQ)
17,000
25,500
(AQ)
x Price per RU
(SP)
$8.00
$7.00
(AP)
= Total cost
$136,000
$178,500
Problem 6.1: In August, Phelps produced 5,000 award medals, 100 more than expected. During the month, the company purchased
1,100 ounces of gold for $875,000. Material standards per medal: 0.21 ounces @ $800 per ounce. The company actually used 1,000
ounces of gold for production. Calculate direct materials price and quantity variances.
Problem 6.2: Shevlin Enterprises purchased 60,000 gallons of direct materials during the year at a price of $2.75 per gallon.
Bennett's direct materials price variance was $6,000 U. Required: Calculate the standard price per gallon.
Problem 6.3: TechSolvers,produces 8-foot USB cables. During the past year, the company purchased 500,000 feet of plastic-coated
wire at a price of $0.25 per foot. The direct materials standard for the cables allows 8.5 feet of wire at a standard price of $0.23.
During the year, the company used a total of 535,000 feet of wire to produce 63,000 8-foot cables. Required: Calculate TechSolvers'
direct materials quantity variance for the year.
Problem 6.4: POD manufactures protective cases for MP3 players. During November, the company's workers clocked &800 more
direct labor hours than the flexible budget amount of 25,000 hours to complete 100,000 cases for the Christmas season. All workers
were paid $9.25 per hour, which was $0.50 more than the standard wage rate. Required: Calculate price and quantity variances.
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