Managerial Accounting: Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment
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Author: HILTON, Ronald
Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL HIGHER EDUCATION
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Chapter 11, Problem 43P
LawnMate Company manufactures power mowers that are sold throughout the United States and Canada. The company uses a comprehensive budgeting process and compares actual results to budgeted amounts on a monthly basis. Each month, LawnMate’s accounting department prepares a
When the
The total variable costs of $780,000 for May include $320,000 for direct material, $192,000 for direct labor, $176,000 for variable production overhead, and $92,000 for variable selling expenses. Ballard believes that LawnMate’s monthly reports would be more meaningful to everyone if the company adopted flexible budgeting and prepared more detailed analyses.
Required:
- 1. Prepare a flexible budget for LawnMate Company for the month of May that includes separate variable-cost budgets for each type of cost (direct material, etc.).
- 2. Determine the variance between the flexible budget and actual cost for each cost item.
- 3. Discuss how the revised
budget and variance data are likely to impact the behavior of Al Richmond, the production manager. - 4. Build a spreadsheet: Construct an Excel spreadsheet to solve requirements (1) and (2) above. Show how the solution will change if the following information changes: actual sales amounted to 4,700 units, and actual fixed overhead was $179,000.
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Chapter 11 Solutions
Managerial Accounting: Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment
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