In: Accounting
| Gilder Corporation makes a product with the following standard costs: |
| Standard Quantity or Hours | Standard Price or Rate | Standard Cost Per Unit | |
| Direct materials | 5.3 grams | $7.00 per gram | $37.10 |
| Direct labor | 1.6 hours | $18.00 per hour | $28.80 |
| Variable overhead | 1.6 hours | $7.00 per hour | $11.20 |
| The company reported the following results concerning this product in June. |
| Originally budgeted output | 5,700 | units |
| Actual output | 5,600 | units |
| Raw materials used in production | 28,470 | grams |
| Purchases of raw materials | 32,700 | grams |
| Actual direct labor-hours | 5,400 | hours |
| Actual cost of raw materials purchases | $232,170 | |
| Actual direct labor cost | $102,060 | |
| Actual variable overhead cost | $36,180 |
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The company applies variable overhead on the basis of direct labor-hours. The direct materials purchases variance is computed when the materials are purchased. |
| The materials quantity variance for June is: |
$8,591 F
$8,470 U
$8,470 F
$8,591 U
| Ans is | $8470 F | |
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Working:- |
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| Standard quantity | 5.3*5600 | |
| 29680 | ||
| Actual quantity | 28470 | |
| Standard price | 7 | |
| DM efficiency variance/ Qty | = | (AQ-SQ)SP |
| = | (28470-29680)*7 | |
| = | -8470 | |
| Since actual cost is less than Standard cost, therefore it is favorable |
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