Cost Accounting
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Author: Horngren
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 7, Problem 7.18E
1.
To determine
Static budget
Given information:
September 2014,
Budgeted sales are 15,000 checkbooks.
Budgeted selling price is $ 20 per checkbook.
Variable cost is $8 per checkbook.
Fixed cost for the month is $145,000.
Actual sales are 12,000 checkbooks.
Actual selling price is $21 per checkbook.
Variable cost is $7 per book.
Fixed cost for the month is $150,000.
2.
To determine
Flexible
3.
To determine
To explain: Reasons for flexible budget based variance analysis being more informative than static budget based variance analysis.
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Chapter 7 Solutions
Cost Accounting
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