Horngren's Accounting, Student Value Edition Plus MyLab Accounting with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (12th Edition)

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ISBN: 9780134642932

Author: Tracie L. Miller-Nobles, Brenda L. Mattison, Ella Mae Matsumura

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 23, Problem E23.19E

Calculating materials and labor variances Learning Objective 3

DLEff. Var. $2,400 F

Matthews Fender, which uses a standard cost system, manufactured 20,000 boat fenders during 2018, using 143,000 square feet of extruded vinyl purchased at $1.30 per square foot. Production required 400 direct labor hours that cost $16.00 per hour. The direct materials standard was seven square feet of vinyl per fender, at a standard cost of $I.35 per square foot. The labor standard was 0.028 direct labor hour per fender, at a standard cost of $I 5.00 per hour.
Compute the cost and efficiency variances for direct materials and direct labor. Does the pattern of variances suggest Matthews Fender's managers have been making trade-offs? Explain.

Definition Definition System of assigning an estimated cost to the product (instead of the actual cost) so that the product cost can be determined well in advance and the pricing of the product can be done on time. Since the actual cost cannot be predicted at the initial stage of the production process, the estimated cost is recorded in the books. Any deviation of the estimated cost of the actual cost is adjusted in the books at the end of the period.

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