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MTQ 2 ACCA F2 TEST PREP QUESTION Q3

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  • December 2, 2014 at 8:55 pm #216481
    Dick
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    Could you provide me with the solution to these questions please how we get the figures?

    Prancer Co uses standard costing to control its costs and revenues. A standard cost card for its only product is given below together with a standard cost operating statement for last month.

    Standard cost card
    $ per unit
    Selling price 150
    Direct materials 2 kg @ $25/kg 50
    Direct labour 3 hours @ $10 per hour 30
    Fixed overhead 2 hours at $10 per hour 20
    Profit 50
    Standard cost operating statement
    $ $
    Budgeted profit 600,000
    Sales volume variance 60,000 adv
    Standard profit on actual sales 540,000
    Sales price variance 20,000 fav
    560,000
    Production cost variances
    Adverse Favourable
    $ $
    Material price 7,500
    Material usage 8,000
    Labour rate 2,000
    Labour efficiency 500
    Fixed overhead expenditure 7,000
    Fixed overhead volume 2,000
    19,000 8,000 11,000 adv
    Actual profit 549,000

    Select the appropriate words, phrases or numbers to correctly complete the commentary on the last month’s results.

    Prancer Co uses sandard costing. In the last month actual selling price was standard.

    Actual units sold were budgeted and actual sales revenue was $

    Production was than budgeted.
    Materials caused the biggest cost variances, where a decision to pay standard price resulted in the company using budget.

    December 3, 2014 at 8:13 am #216667
    John Moffat
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    I am sorry, but I cannot type out a complete answer here.

    Presumably the book in which you found this question also contains an answer, so please say which part is causing you a problem and I will try and help.

    December 3, 2014 at 11:22 am #216761
    Dick
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    Sorry the bit i am confused with is the actual sold ( i know the answer is 1,200 less) and actual sales revenue (i know the answer is 1,640,000)

    December 3, 2014 at 3:30 pm #216872
    John Moffat
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    Since the sales volume variance is 60,000 adverse and the standard profit is $50 per unit, the actual number sold must be less than budget by 60,000 / 50 = 1,200.

    Since the budget profit is $600,000, the budget sales must have been 600,000 / 50 = 12,000. So the actual sales were 12,000 – 1,200 = 10,800 units.

    The standard revenue is 10,800 x $150 = 1,620,000.
    The sales price variance is 20,000 favourable, so the actual revenue must be 1,620,000 + 20,000 = 1,640,000

    December 3, 2014 at 4:32 pm #216928
    Dick
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    Last question : the same figure as before but can you advise how the answer in brackets come about:

    Production was than budgeted (100 Units less)Materials caused the biggest cost variances, where a decision to pay less than standard price resulted in the company using (320Kg less than )budget.

    December 3, 2014 at 6:38 pm #217039
    John Moffat
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    The fixed overhead volume variance is 2,000. The standard fixed overhead per unit is $20.
    So the production must be lower than budget by 2,000/20 = 100 units.

    The materials usage variance is 8,000, so the actual usage is 8000/25 = 320 kg less than standard usage for the actual production

    January 21, 2015 at 12:35 pm #223228
    Ryan
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    sir 8000/25=320 kg.how do we knw it is more than the flexed? is it bcoz 8000 is adverse?

    also will they ask us to find the actual units produced from the above figure?is it possible ?

    January 22, 2015 at 8:07 am #223329
    John Moffat
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    Yes – because it as adverse.

    On the information given it is not possible to calculate the actual production

    May 10, 2017 at 6:13 am #385552
    cindy7
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    good morning sir. concerning the question above (prance company) are there any formulas I can use to find answers in calculating reversed variances, or I must only use concepts and common sense, please help.

    May 10, 2017 at 6:56 am #385570
    John Moffat
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    They are the same formulae/rules that you must learn anyway for calculating variances in the first place (and that I go through in my free lectures).

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