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Barrington Bears has developed the following sales forecasts for the next few months. January 500, February...

Barrington Bears has developed the following sales forecasts for the next few months. January 500, February 600, March 720, April 800 and May 770. BB has 80 bears on hand on Dec. 31. Normal ending inventory policy is to hold 20% of next month’s sales. Each bear needs .8 yards of fabric and two pounds of stuffing. Fabric is budgeted to cost $15 per yard and stuffing $4 per pound. Direct labor is paid $18 per hour. Each bear takes 40 minutes to hand-finish. Variable overheads total $21 per direct labor hour. Fixed overheads amount to $25,000 per month. Eighty yards of fabric and 100 pounds of stuffing were in stock at year-end. Ten percent and 25% of next month’s stuffing and fabric needs respectively are planned for raw materials ending inventory each month. Assume that in March there was a favorable variance from the production master budget. Which factors may not have contributed to this result?

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Due to highest production in March, the budgeted fixed cost per unit and hence the total cost per unit has become least.This may have lead to showing of positive variances but in reality there is merely a reflection of decreased per unit fixed cost on increase of production in a month.

  

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