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Utease Corporation has many production plants across the midwestern United States. A newly opened plant, the Bellingham plant, produces and sells one product. The plant is treated, for responsibility accounting purposes, as a profit center. The unit standard costs for a production unit, with overhead applied based on direct labor hours, are as follows.
Direct materials (2 pounds at $20) | $ | 40.00 | ||
Direct labor (1.5 hours at $90) | 135.00 | |||
Variable overhead (1.5 hours at $20) | 30.00 | |||
Fixed overhead (1.5 hours at $30) | 45.00 | |||
Standard cost per unit | $ | 250.00 | ||
Budgeted selling and administrative costs: | ||||
Variable | $ | 5 | per unit | |
Fixed | $ | 1,800,000 | ||
Expected sales activity: 20,000 units at $425.00 per unit
Desired ending inventories: 10% of sales
Assume this is the first year of operations for the Bellingham plant. During the year, the company had the following activity.
Units produced | 23,000 | |||
Units sold | 21,500 | |||
Unit selling price | $ | 420 | ||
Direct labor hours worked | 34,000 | |||
Direct labor costs | $ | 3,094,000 | ||
Direct materials purchased | 50,000 | pounds | ||
Direct materials costs | $ | 1,000,000 | ||
Direct materials used | 50,000 | pounds | ||
Actual fixed overhead | $ | 1,080,000 | ||
Actual variable overhead | $ | 620,000 | ||
Actual selling and administrative costs | $ | 2,000,000 | ||
In addition, all over- or underapplied overhead and all product cost variances are adjusted to cost of goods sold.
a. Prepare a production budget for the coming year based on the available standards, expected sales, and desired ending inventories.
b. Prepare a budgeted responsibility income statement for the Bellingham plant for the coming year.
c. Find the direct labor variances. Indicate if they are favorable or unfavorable. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting Favorable, Unfavorable, and "None" for no effect.)
d. Find the direct materials variances (materials price variance and quantity variance). (Enter your answers in dollars not in pounds. Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting Favorable, Unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance.)
f. Calculate the actual plant operating profit for the year.