Glassworks makes products for the sandblasting industry. One of the products they make is bags of high-grade sandblasting media that is made from a combination of quartz-sand and recycled ground-glass (cullet). Standard costs and quantities to produce one bag of sandblasting media are as follows:                           Quantity          Cost Quartz-sand    20 kg               $4.00 Cullet               5 kg                $3.00   80,000 bags of sandblasting media were produced. Actual purchases and inventories were:                         Beginning           Ending          Purchases        Purchases                         Inventory         Inventory              (in kg)            ( in $) Quartz-sand       0 kg                          0 kg       1,610,000 kg   $322,161 Cullet                  0 kg              120,000 kg         550,000 kg    $286,000   Required: Calculate the following variances: a)Total direct material efficiency variance. b)Total direct material mix variance. c)Total direct material yield variance.

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Glassworks makes products for the sandblasting industry. One of the products they make is bags of high-grade sandblasting media that is made from a combination of quartz-sand and recycled ground-glass (cullet). Standard costs and quantities to produce one bag of sandblasting media are as follows:

 

                        Quantity          Cost

Quartz-sand    20 kg               $4.00

Cullet               5 kg                $3.00

 

80,000 bags of sandblasting media were produced. Actual purchases and inventories were:

                        Beginning           Ending          Purchases        Purchases

                        Inventory         Inventory              (in kg)            ( in $)

Quartz-sand       0 kg                          0 kg       1,610,000 kg   $322,161

Cullet                  0 kg              120,000 kg         550,000 kg    $286,000

 

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Calculate the following variances:

a)Total direct material efficiency variance.

b)Total direct material mix variance.

c)Total direct material yield variance.

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