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TG manufactures Product Z. Its standard selling price is $55. The production and sales budget for the quarter ended 31 March 20X3 was 7,500 units. The standard specification per unit of Product Z comprises: Direct labour 4 standard hours at $6/hour Direct material 1.2 kg at $10/kg Standard variable overhead 4 standard hours at $1/hour Budgeted fixed overhead $75,000 At the end of the quarter the management accounts showed the following:
Production and sales of product Z in units: 7700
Actual sales revenue: $424270
Actual direct labour (31,750): $192577
Actual direct material (8855 kg) : $89436
Actual fixed overhead: $72400
(a) Prepare a statement reconciling budgeted and actual profit in the quarter, using absorption costing.
(b) Prepare a statement reconciling budgeted and actual profit in the quarter, using marginal costing.
Below are the working for calculation of variances. Minus denote Adverse (A) and positive figure denote Favorable (F)
material | st. price | act. Price | act. Qty | std. qty |
92400 | 89436 | 8855 | 9240 | |
Variance | 2964 | F | ||
Labour cost variance | st. hours | act. Hours | actual | standard |
30800 | 31750 | 192577 | 184800 | |
Variance | -7777 | |||
Variable overhead variance | ||||
st. hours | act. Hours | actual | standard | |
30800 | 31750 | |||
variance | -950 | |||
Fixed overhead variance | ||||
Budeged | (-) | Actual | ||
75000 | 72400 | |||
Variance | 2600 | |||
Sale variance | ||||
Budeged | (-) | Actual | ||
423500 | 424270 | |||
770 |
Statement under absorption costing | ||||
budgeted profit | 32723 | |||
sales volume variance | ||||
sales price variance | 770 | f | ||
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cost variances | $f | $a | ||
materials price | 2964 | |||
material usage | ||||
labour rate | 7777 | |||
labour idle | ||||
labour efficiency | ||||
variable overheads expenditure | 950 | |||
variable overheads efficiency | ||||
fixed overheads expenditure | 2600 | |||
fixed overheads efficiency | ||||
fixed overheads capacity | ||||
---- | ---- | |||
5564 | 8727 | 33493 | 30330 | |
Actul Profit | 38107 |
Statement under Marginal costing | ||||
budgeted profit | 32723 | |||
sales volume variance | ||||
sales price variance | 770 | |||
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cost variances | $f | $a | ||
materials price | 2964 | |||
material usage | ||||
labour rate | 7777 | |||
labour idle | ||||
labour efficiency | ||||
variable overheads expenditure | 950 | |||
variable overheads efficiency | ||||
2964 | 8727 | 33493 | 27730 | |
Actul Profit | 38107 |