Question: Variance (accounting) Davidson Corp. produces a single product: fireproof safety deposit boxes for home use. The budget going into the current year anticipated a selling price of $61 per unit. Because of competitive pressures, the company had to cut selling prices by 10% during the year. Budgeted variable costs per unit are $38, and budgeted total fixed costs are $159,000 for the year. The anticipated sales volume for the year was 13,000 units. Actual sales volume was 5% less than budget. What was the sales price variance for the year?

Saginaw Company is a garden products wholesale firm. In December, Saginaw Company expects to sell 30,000 bags of vegetable fertilizer at an average price of 5.30 per bag. Actual results are 30,600 bags sold at an average price of 5.20 per bag. Required: 1. Calculate the sales price variance for December. 2. Calculate the sales volume variance for December. 3. Calculate the overall sales variance for December. Explain why it is favorable or unfavorable. 4. What if December sales were actually 29,800 bags? How would that affect the sales price variance? The sales volume variance? The overall sales variance?

Variable Cost Ratio, Contribution Margin Ratio Chillmax Company plans to sell 3,500 pairs of shoes at 60 each in the coming year. Unit variable cost is 21 (includes direct materials, direct labor, variable factory overhead, and variable selling expense). Fixed factory overhead is 30,000 and fixed selling and administrative expense is 48,000. Required: 1. Calculate the variable cost ratio. 2. Calculate the contribution margin ratio. 3. Prepare a contribution margin income statement based on the budgeted figures for next year. In a column next to the income statement, show the percentages based on sales for sales, total variable cost, and total contribution margin.

The production cost for UV protective sunglasses is $5.50 per unit and fixed costs are $19,400 per month. How much is the favorable or unfavorable variance if 14,000 units were produced for a total of $97,000?

Shalimar Company manufactures and sells industrial products. For next year, Shalimar has budgeted the follow sales: In Shalimars experience, 10 percent of sales are paid in cash. Of the sales on account, 65 percent are collected in the quarter of sale, 25 percent are collected in the quarter following the sale, and 7 percent are collected in the second quarter after the sale. The remaining 3 percent are never collected. Total sales for the third quarter of the current year are 4,900,000 and for the fourth quarter of the current year are 6,850,000. Required: 1. Calculate cash sales and credit sales expected in the last two quarters of the current year, and in each quarter of next year. 2. Construct a cash receipts budget for Shalimar Company for each quarter of the next year, showing the cash sales and the cash collections from credit sales. 3. What if the recession led Shalimars top management to assume that in the next year 10 percent of credit sales would never be collected? The expected payment percentages in the quarter of sale and the quarter after sale are assumed to be the same. How would that affect cash received in each quarter? Construct a revised cash budget using the new assumption.

Play-Disc makes Frisbee-type plastic discs. Each 12-inch diameter plastic disc has the following manufacturing costs: For the coming year, Play-Disc expects to make 300,000 plastic discs, and to sell 285,000 of them. Budgeted beginning inventory in units is 16,000 with unit cost of 4.75. (There are no beginning or ending inventories of work in process.) Required: 1. Prepare an ending finished goods inventory budget for Play-Disc for the coming year. 2. What if sales increased to 290,000 discs? How would that affect the ending finished goods inventory budget? Calculate the value of budgeted ending finished goods inventory.

Carmichael Corporation is in the process of preparing next years budget. The pro forma income statement for the current year is as follows: Required: 1. What is the break-even sales revenue (rounded to the nearest dollar) for Carmichael Corporation for the current year? 2. For the coming year, the management of Carmichael Corporation anticipates an 8 percent increase in variable costs and a 60,000 increase in fixed expenses. What is the break-even point in dollars for next year? (CMA adapted)

Rosenberry Company computed the following revenue variances for January: Revenue price variance (350,000) Favorable Revenue volume variance50,000 Unfavorable Assuming that the planned selling price per unit was 10 and that actual sales were 175,000 units, determine the following: a. Actual selling price of January. b. Planned number of units that were to be sold in January.

The production cost for a waterproof phone case is $7 per unit and fixed costs are $23,000 per month. How much is the favorable or unfavorable variance If 5,500 units were produced for a total of $61,000?

Artic Camping Gears currently sells 35,000 units at $73 per unit. Its expenses are as follows: Management believes it can increase sales by 2,000 units for every $5 decrease in sales price. It also believes the additional sales will allow a decrease in direct material of $1 for each additional 2,000 units. Prepare a flexible budgeted income statement for 35,000-, 37,000-, and 39,000-unit sales.