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EZ-Tax is a tax accounting practice with partners and staff members. Each billable hour of partner...

EZ-Tax is a tax accounting practice with partners and staff members. Each billable hour of partner time has a $560 budgeted price and $280 budgeted variable cost. Each billable hour of staff time has a budgeted price of $140 and a budgeted variable cost of $80. For the most recent year, the partnership budget called for 8,700 billable partner-hours and 35,600 staff-hours. Actual results were as follows:

Partner revenue $ 4,538,000 8,300 hours
Staff revenue $ 4,930,000 35,000 hours

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.)

  
Partner
Staff

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.)

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a) Sales price variance = (actual price - standard price) * actual sales units
Partner Staff
Actual sales $       8,300.00 $35,000.00
Actual price $          546.75 $     140.86
Standard price $          560.00 $     140.00
Sales price variance $-1,10,000.00 $30,000.00
Effect U F
b) Total sale activity variance = sale mix variance + sale volume variance
-44907+ (-103093)
-148000
c) sales mix variance
Partner Staff
Actual sales 8300 35000
Actual price 546.75 140.86
Standard price 560 140
variable cost 280 80
Contribution margin 280 60
Standard qty 8700 35600
Sales mix 19.64% 80.36%
Sale quantities in proportion of sales mix 8504 34796
Difference -204 204
Contribution margin 280 60
Variance -57154 12247
Sales mix variance -44907 U
d) Sales quantity variance
Partner Staff
Actual sales 8300 35000
Actual price 546.75 140.86
Standard price 560 140
variable cost 280 80
Contribution margin 280 60
Standard qty 8700 35600
Sales mix 19.64% 80.36%
Sale quantities in proportion of sales mix 8504 34796
Difference -196 -804
Contribution margin 280 60
Variance -54846 -48247
Sales volume variance -103093 U

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