Exam 8: Performance Evaluation

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Baker charges its customers $60 per hour.The chief operating officer expected that the company would provide 40,000 hours of service to clients.However,the vice president for marketing argues that the actual number of hours may range from 36,000 to 44,000 hours.Baker's standard variable cost is $32.50 per hour,and its standard fixed cost is $750,000. Required: Prepare flexible budgets for 36,000,40,000,and 44,000 hours.

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Indicate whether each of the following statements is

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Standards that do allow for normal down time and can be achieved with reasonable amounts of effort are known as:

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Timberlake Company planned for a production and sales volume of 12,000 units.However,the company actually makes and sells 13,000 units. Number of units Sales revenue Variable manufacturing costs: Materials Labor Overhead Variable G,S\&A Contribution margin Fixed costs Manufacturing overhead G,S\&A Net income Per unit standards \ 65.00 \ 11.00 \ 9.00 \ 4.20 \ 11.00 Static Budget 12,000 \ 780,000 132,000 108,000 50,400 \ 357,600 100,800 \ 211,800 Flexible Budget 13,000 \ 845,000 143,000 117,000 54,600 \ 387,400 100,800 \ 241,600 What was the sales volume variance?

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Select the correct statement regarding general,selling,and administrative (GS&A)costs.

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What steps or activities are involved in developing standards for the materials that are used in making a product?

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How does the use of standard costs fit with the philosophy of management by exception?

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Select the incorrect statement.

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Which of the following statements is correct?

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For performance evaluation,the amount of costs actually incurred should be compared to the costs that would have been incurred at the actual volume of activity rather than at the planned volume of activity.

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Describe several factors that should be considered in establishing standards for use with a standard costing system.

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Which manager is usually held responsible for labor price variances?

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At the beginning of the period,Cambridge Company estimated that sales would be 10,000 units.Actual sales totaled 14,000 units.The manager was very excited about the unexpected additional income that the extra 4,000 units would produce.Imagine her surprise upon seeing the following report: Number of units Sales Less variable costs: Naterials Labor Overhead Selling and admin. Contribution margin Less fixed costs: Manifactuing Selling and admin. Net income Static Budget 10,000 quad500,000 12,000 100,000 50,000 20,000 quad210,000 30,000 60,000 quad120,000 Actual Results 14,000 \ 600,000 164,000 134,000 72,000 30,000 \ 200,000) 32,000 56,000 \ 112,000 The company's owner is very upset,charging that the manager did a lousy job of controlling costs. Required: 1)Prepare a performance report that can be used to evaluate the owner's charge that the manager did a poor job of controlling costs.Be sure to label variances as favorable or unfavorable. 2)Is the owner justified in charging the manager with poor cost control? Why or why not?

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The following information is provided by the Atlas Company: Actual direct material cost \ 20,000 Standard direct material cost \ 24,000 Direct material usage variance \ 3,000 favorable What is the direct material price variance?

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The accountant for Dalton Company prepared the following performance report: Number of units Sales Less vanable costs: Materials Labor Overhead Selling and adnin. Contribution margin Less fixed costs: Manufacturing Selling and adnin. Net income Static Budget 4.000 \ 200,000 72,000 50,000 16,000 \ 23,000 15,000 \ 1,500 Flexible Budget 4,500 \ 225,00 81,000 56,250 18,000 \ 25,875 15,000 \ 4,375 Actual Results 4,500 223,000 81,600 54,000 17,800 47,700 21,900 13,350 6,600 1,950 Required: 1)Compute the sales volume variance in units. 2)Compute the percentage increase in revenue generated by the increase in activity. 3)Compute the percentage increase in budgeted profitability that resulted from the increase in revenue.Explain this result. 4)How would differences between planned and actual volume impact companies that use a cost-plus pricing strategy?

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When would a variance be labeled as favorable?

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Volume variances are computed for which of the following costs?

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Which manager is generally held responsible for the sales volume variance?

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Southern Company established a direct labor standards of 0.5 hour per unit at $12 per hour for one of its products.In March,Southern used 12,000 direct labor hours,and the total amount paid to direct labor employees was $143,400. Required: Based on this information, (a)Which variance can you calculate? (b)What is the dollar amount of the variance? (c)Is the variance favorable or unfavorable? (d)Do you consider the variance to be sufficiently material that managers should investigate to discover the cause of the variance?

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Indicate whether each of the following statements is

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