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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 | ||
| ---- | ||||
| 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 | |||
| ---- | ||||
| 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 | |||