Ultimate Production manufactures radon detectors. The standard for materials for each detector is 2 pounds of acrylic at a standard cost of $4.30 per pound. During May, the company purchased 890 pounds and used 830 pounds of acrylic, and made 410 radon detectors. The company paid $4.45 per pound for the acrylic. There were 400 detectors budgeted for May. How much is the material quantity variance? A) $134 unfavorable B) $43 unfavorable C) $177 unfavorable D) $263 unfavorable

Corolla Manufacturing has a standard cost for steel of $20 per pound for a product that uses 4 pounds of steel. During September, Corolla purchased and used 4,200 pounds of steel to make 1,040 units. They paid $20.75 per pound for the steel. Compute the direct materials price variance, the direct materials quantity variance, and the total direct materials cost variance for the month of September. What would change if Corolla had made 2,200 units?

Lowell Manufacturing Inc. has a normal selling price of 20 per unit and has been selling 125,000 units per month. In November, Lowell Manufacturing decided to lower its price to 19 per unit expecting it can increase the units sold by 16%. a. Compute the normal revenue with a 20 selling price. b. Compute the planned revenue with a 19 selling price. c. Compute the actual revenue for November, assuming 135,000 units were sold in November at 19 per unit. d. Compute the revenue price variance, assuming 135,000 units were sold in November at 19 per unit. e. Compute the revenue volume variance, assuming 135,000 units were sold in November at 19 per unit. f. Analyze and interpret the lowering of the price to 19.

Sunrise Poles manufactures hiking poles and is planning on producing 4,000 units in March and 3,700 in April. Each pole requires a half pound of material, which costs $1.20 per pound. The companys policy is to have enough material on hand to equal 10% of the next months production needs and to maintain a finished goods inventory equal to 25% of the next months production needs. What is the budgeted cost of purchases for March?

Marymount Company makes one product. In the month of April, it made 3,500 units. Workers were paid $32 per hour for labor, for a total of $718,848. The standard hours per unit are 6.4, and the standard labor wage rate is $38.40 per hour. A. What are the actual hours worked? B. What are the standard hours for the units made? C. What is the direct labor rate variance for April? D. What Is the direct labor time variance for April? E. What is the total direct labor variance for April?

The normal capacity of a manufacturing plant is 30,000 direct labor hours or 20,000 units per month. Standard fixed costs are 6,000, and variable costs are 12,000. Data for two months follow: For each month, make a single journal entry to charge overhead to Work in Process, to close Factory Overhead, and to record variances. Indicate the types of variances and state whether each is favorable or unfavorable. (Hint: You must first compute the flexible-budget and production-volume variances.)

April Industries employs a standard costing system in the manufacturing of its sole product, a park bench. They purchased 60,000 feet of raw material for $300,000, and it takes S feet of raw materials to produce one park bench. In August, the company produced 10,000 park benches. The standard cost for material output was $100,000, and there was an unfavorable direct materials quantity variance of $6,000. A. What is April Industries standard price for one unit of material? B. What was the total number of units of material used to produce the August output? C. What was the direct materials price variance for August?

De Soto Inc. produces tablet computers. The company uses Thin Film Crystal (TFC) LCD displays for its products. Each tablet uses one display. The company produced 770 tablets during July. However, due to LCD defects, the company actually used 800 LCD displays during July. Each display has a standard cost of 12.50. Eight hundred LCD displays were purchased for July production at a cost of 9,400. Determine the price variance, quantity variance, and total direct materials cost variance for July.

Kavallia Company set a standard cost for one item at 328,000; allowable deviation is 14,500. Actual costs for the past six months are as follows: Required: 1. Calculate the variance from standard for each month. Which months should be investigated? 2. What if the company uses a two-part rule for investigating variances? The allowable deviation is the lesser of 4 percent of the standard amount or 14,500. Now which months should be investigated?

Salisbury Bottle Company manufactures plastic two-liter bottles for the beverage industry. The cost standards per 100 two-liter bottles are as follows: At the beginning of March, Salisburys management planned to produce 500,000 bottles. The actual number of bottles produced for March was 525,000 bottles. The actual costs for March of the current year were as follows: a. Prepare the March manufacturing standard cost budget (direct labor, direct materials, and factory overhead) for Salisbury, assuming planned production. b. Prepare a budget performance report for manufacturing costs, showing the total cost variances for direct materials, direct labor, and factory overhead for March. c. Interpret the budget performance report.