Puget Sound Divers is a company that provides diving services such as underwater ship repairs to clients in the Puget Sound area. The company's planning budget for May appears below: Puget Sound Divers Planning Budget For the Month Ended May 31 Budgeted diving-hours (9) 200 $ 90,000 Revenue ($450.000) Expenses: Wages and salaries ($11,700 + $122.009) Supplies ($4.00) Equipment rental ($2,100 + $21.009) Insurance ($4,000) Miscellaneous ($530 + $1.469) Total expense Net operating income 36,100 800 6,300 4,000 822 48,022 $ 41,978 During May, the company's actual activity was 190 diving-hours. Quilcene Oysteria farms and sells oysters in the Pacific Northwest. The company harvested and sold 7,200 pounds of oysters in August. The company's flexible budget for August appears below: Quilcene Oysteria Flexible Budget For the Month Ended August 31 Actual pounds (9) 7,200 $ 29,880 Revenue ($4.159) Expenses: Packing supplies ($0.359) Oyster bed maintenance ($3,100) Wages and salaries ($2,200 + $0.409) Shipping ($0.709) Utilities ($1,240) Other ($430 + $0.019) Total expense Net operating income 2,520 3,100 5,080 5,040 1,240 502 17,482 $ 12,398 The actual results for August appear below: Quilcene Oysteria Income Statement For the Month Ended August 31 Actual pounds 7,200 $ 27,000 Revenue Expenses: Packing supplies Oyster bed maintenance Wages and salaries Shipping Utilities Other Total expense Net operating income 2,690 2,960 5,490 4,770 1,050 1,122 18,082 8,918 $ Bandar Industries Berhad of Malaysia manufactures sporting equipment. One of the company's products, a football helmet for the North American market, requires a special plastic. During the quarter ending June 30, the company manufactured 3,500 helmets, using 2,065 kilograms of plastic. The plastic cost the company $15,694. According to the standard cost card, each helmet should require 0.53 kilograms of plastic, at a cost of $8.00 per kilogram. Required: 1. What is the standard quantity of kilograms of plastic (SQ) that is allowed to make 3,500 helmets? 2. What is the standard materials cost allowed (SQ * SP) to make 3,500 helmets? 3. What is the materials spending variance? 4. What is the materials price variance and the materials quantity variance? Logistics Solutions provides order fulfillment services for dot.com merchants. The company maintains warehouses that stock items carried by its dot.com clients. When a client receives an order from a customer, the order is forwarded to Logistics Solutions, which pulls the item from storage, packs it, and ships it to the customer. The company uses a predetermined variable overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. In the most recent month, 160,000 items were shipped to customers using 6,500 direct labor-hours. The company incurred a total of $20,800 in variable overhead costs. According to the company's standards, 0.03 direct labor-hours are required to fulfill an order for one item and the variable overhead rate is $3.25 per direct labor-hour. Required: 1. What is the standard labor-hours allowed (SH) to ship 160,000 items to customers? 2. What is the standard variable overhead cost allowed (SH SR) to ship 160,000 items to customers? 3. What is the variable overhead spending variance? 4. What is the variable overhead rate variance and the variable overhead efficiency variance? Mickley Corporation produces two products, Alphabs and Zeta7s, which pass through two operations, Sintering and Finishing. Each of the products uses two raw materials-X442 and Y661. The company uses a standard cost system, with the following standards for each product (on a per unit basis): Product Alpha 6 Zeta 7 Raw Material X442 7661 2.5 kilos 2.5 liters 4.5 kilos 4.0 liters Standard Labor Time Sintering Finishing 0.20 hours 0.80 hours 0.40 hours 1.20 hours Information relating to materials purchased and materials used in production during May follows: Material X442 Y661 Purchase Purchases Cost 15,800 kilos $53, 720 16,800 liters $21,840 Standard Price $3.20 per kilo $1.40 per liter Used in Production 10, 300 kilos 14,800 liters The following additional information is available: a. The company recognizes price variances when materials are purchased. b. The standard labor rate is $23.00 per hour in Sintering and $22.00 per hour in Finishing. c. During May, 1,380 direct labor-hours were worked in Sintering at a total labor cost of $34,500, and 3,030 direct labor-hours were worked in Finishing at a total labor cost of $72,720. d. Production during May was 2,400 Alpha6s and 1,000 Zeta7s. Required: 1. Complete the standard cost card for each product, showing the standard cost of direct materials and direct labor. 2. Compute the materials price and quantity variances for each material. 3. Compute the labor rate and efficiency variances for each operation
