In: Accounting
EZ-Tax is a tax accounting practice with partners and
staff members. Each billable hour of partner time has a $580
budgeted price and $290 budgeted variable cost. Each billable hour
of staff time has a budgeted price of $130 and a budgeted variable
cost of $80. For the most recent year, the partnership budget
called for 8,400 billable partner-hours and 33,700 staff-hours.
Actual results were as follows:
Partner
revenue$4,492,000 7,900hoursStaff
revenue$4,315,000 33,000hours
Required:
a. Compute the sales price
variance. (Indicate the effect of each variance by
selecting "F" for favorable, or "U" for unfavorable. If there is no
effect, do not select either option.)
b. Compute the total sales activity
variance. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Indicate
the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, or "U"
for unfavorable. If there is no effect, do not select either
option.)
c. Compute the total sales mix
variance. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Indicate
the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, or "U"
for unfavorable. If there is no effect, do not select either
option.)
d. Compute the total sales quantity
variance. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Indicate
the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, or "U"
for unfavorable. If there is no effect, do not select either
option.)