Packaging Solutions Corporation manufactures and sells a wide variety of packaging products. Performance reports are prepared monthly for each department. The planning budget and flexible budget for the Production Department are based on the following formulas, where q is the number of labor-hours worked in a month:   Cost Formulas Direct labor $16.50q Indirect labor $4,100 + $1.60q Utilities $5,100 + $0.70q Supplies $1,200 + $0.40q Equipment depreciation $18,000 + $2.50q Factory rent $8,500 Property taxes $3,000 Factory administration $13,500 + $0.80q The Production Department planned to work 4,400 labor-hours in March; however, it actually worked 4,200 labor-hours during the month. Its actual costs incurred in March are listed below:   Actual Cost Incurred in March Direct labor $ 70,920 Indirect labor $ 10,320 Utilities $ 8,570 Supplies $ 3,170 Equipment depreciation $ 28,500 Factory rent $ 8,900 Property taxes $ 3,000 Factory administration $ 16,250 Prepare the Production Department’s flexible budget performance report for March, including both the spending and activity variances.

Product Costs using Activity Rates Nozama.com Inc. sells consumer electronics over the Internet. For the next period, the budgeted cost of the sales order processing activity is $121,100, and 17,300 orders are estimated to be processed. a.  Determine the activity rate of the sales order processing activity.$ per sales order b.  Determine the amount of sales order processing cost that Nozama.com would receive if it had 9,900 sales orders.$

Use the following information for the Quick Studies below. (Algo) Rafner Manufacturing has the following budgeted data for its two production departments. Budgeted Data Overhead cost Direct labor hours Machine hours $ 1,389,900 QS 17-7 (Algo) Computing departmental overhead rates LO P2 What is the Assembly department overhead rate using direct labor hours? What is the Finishing department overhead rate using machine hours? Assembly 12,300 direct labor hours. 5,700 machine hours The departmental overhead rate for Assembly Budgeted manufacturing costs S Budgeted overhead costs Actual machine hours Answer is complete but not entirely correct. Actual machine hours The departmental overhead rate for Finishing $ 1,389,900 5,700 863,500 $ 15,700 $ 55 244 per direct labor hour per machine hour. $ 863,500 Finishing 19,700 direct labor hours. 15,700 machine hours

Production, Direct Labor, Direct Materials, Sales Budgets, Budgeted Contribution Margin Greiner Company makes and sells high-quality glare filters for microcomputer monitors. John Craven, controller, is responsible for preparing Greiner's master budget and has assembled the following data for the coming year. The direct labor rate includes wages, all employee-related benefits, and the employer's share of FICA. Labor saving machinery will be fully operational by March. Also, as of March 1, the company's union contract calls for an increase in direct labor wages that is included in the direct labor rate. Greiner expects to have 6,600 glare filters in inventory on December 31 of the current year, and has a policy of carrying 35 percent of the following month's projected sales in inventory. Information on the first four months of the coming year is as follows: January February March April Estimated unit sales 37,200 35,400 40,000 40,000 Sales price per unit $80 $80 $75 $75 Direct labor…

III. Folsom Company manufactures specialty tools to customer order. There are three producing departments. Departmental information on budgeted overhead and various activity measures for the coming year is as follows: Estimated overhead Direct labor hours Direct labor cost Machine hours Direct materials Direct labor cost Direct labor hours: Welding $ 220,000 $ 4,500 90,000 5,000 Welding Assembly Finishing Number of machine hours: Welding Assembly Finishing Assembly $ 62,000 10,000 $ 150,000 1,000 Currently, overhead is applied on the basis of machine hours using a plantwide rate. However, Janine, the controller, has been wondering whether it might be worthwhile to use departmental overhead rates. She has analyzed the overhead costs and drivers for the various departments and decided that Welding and Finishing should base their overhead rates on machine hours and that Assembly should base its overhead rate on direct labor hours. Janine has been asked to prepare bids for two jobs with…

Use the Information below to answer the two questions that follow. A company provides delivery services and uses two activity measures for its costs: the miles driven and the number of customer order. For the most recent month, the company reported the following information: Actual $ 12,940 $ 22 per mile $ 13 per order Budgeted Fixed cost per month Varlable cost per mile Varlable cost per order $ 26 $ 12 Miles driven Customer orders Budgeted 74 480 Actual 64miles 460 orders Spending Varlance for total costs $203 Unfavorable Q. What was the company's budgeted fixed cost per month? ANS. S Q. What was the company's activity variance for the month? ANS. $ (Click to select) v

Production, Direct Labor, Direct Materials, Sales Budgets, Budgeted Contribution Margin Greiner Company makes and sells high-quality glare filters for microcomputer monitors. John Craven, controller, is responsible for preparing Greiner's master budget and has assembled the following data for the coming year. The direct labor rate includes wages, all employee-related benefits, and the employer's share of FICA. Labor saving machinery will be fully operational by March. Also, as of March 1, the company's union contract calls for an increase in direct labor wages that is included in the direct labor rate. Greiner expects to have 6,600 glare filters in inventory on December 31 of the current year, and has a policy of carrying 35 percent of the following month's projected sales in inventory. Information on the first four months of the coming year is as follows: January February March April Estimated unit sales 37,200 35,400 40,000 40,000 Sales price per unit $80 $80 $75 $75 Direct labor…

Packaging Solutions Corporation manufactures and sells a wide variety of packaging products. Its Production Department's planning budget and flexible budget are based on the following formulas, where q is the number of labor-hours worked in a month: Direct labor Indirect labor Utilities Supplies Equipment depreciation Factory rent Property taxes Factory administration Direct labor Indirect labor Utilities Supplies Equipment depreciation Cost Formulas $16.309 $4,200+ $1.809 $5,800+ $0.909 $1,800+ $0.109 The Production Department planned to work 4,200 labor-hours in March; however, it actually worked 4,000 labor-hours during the month. Its actual costs incurred in March are listed below: Factory rent Property taxes Factory administration $18,600 + $2.609 $8,100 $2,800 $13,300 + $0.709 Actual Cost Incurred in March $ 66,780 $ 10,940 $ 9,970 $ 2,430 $ 29,000 $ 8,500 $ 2,800 $ 15,470 Required: 1. Prepare the Production Department's planning budget for the month.

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Packaging Solutions Corporation manufactures and sells a wide variety of packaging products. Its Production Department's planning budget and flexible budget are based on the following formulas, where q is the number of labor-hours worked in a month: Direct labor Indirect labor Utilities Cost Formulas $16.60q $4,300 +$1.60q $5,700 +$0.40q Supplies $1,200 + $0.20q Equipment depreciation Factory rent $18,600 + $2.80q $8,400 $2,500 Property taxes Factory administration $13,100 +$0.50q The Production Department planned to work 4,500 labor-hours in March; however, it actually worked 4,300 labor-hours during the month. Its actual costs incurred in March are listed below: Actual Cost Incurred in March $ 73,020 Direct labor Indirect labor Utilities Supplies Equipment depreciation Factory rent Property taxes Factory administration Required: $ 10,680 $ 7,890 $ 2,310 $ 30,640 $ 8,800 $ 2,500 $ 14,580 1. Prepare the Production Department's planning budget for the month. 2. Prepare the Production…