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Variance

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  • April 13, 2014 at 8:42 am #165170
    nguwah
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    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.

    Production was 100 units less than budgeted (Answer : 100 units less)

    Hello Teacher,

    Please explain, how to calculate Actual Production Units. (This question from F2-Management Accounting (Extra MTQs)

    Thank you and have a nice day.

    April 13, 2014 at 9:33 am #165176
    John Moffat
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    From the fixed overhead volume variance.

    The volume variance is (actual production – budget production) x std fix o/h per unit.

    You know the variance is 2,000, and you know that the fix o/h per unit is $20

    April 13, 2014 at 9:58 am #165179
    nguwah
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    Thanks, Teacher John. I got it.

    April 13, 2014 at 10:09 am #165180
    John Moffat
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    You are welcome 🙂

    April 26, 2019 at 6:44 pm #514252
    wfa01
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    Thank you!!

    April 27, 2019 at 9:50 pm #514348
    John Moffat
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    You are welcome 🙂

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