Accounting: What the Numbers Mean
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ISBN: 9781259535314
Author: David Marshall, Wayne William McManus, Daniel Viele
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 15, Problem 15.22P
Problem 15.22
LO 4, 5
Direct labor variances-banking application Founders State Bank developed a standard for teller staffing that provided for one teller to handle 12 customers per hour. During June, the bank averaged 50 customers per hour and had five tellers on duty at all times. (Relief tellers filled in during lunch and rest breaks.) The teller compensation cost is $12 per hour. The bank is open eight hours a day, and there were 21 working days during June.
Required:
- Calculate the teller efficiency variance during June expressed in terms of number of tellers and cost per hour.
- Now assume that in June, during the 11 A.M. to 1 P.M., period every day, the bank served an average of 80 customers per hour. During the other six hours of the day, an average of 40 customers per hour were served.
- Calculate a teller efficiency variance for the 11 to 1 period expressed in terms of number of tellers per hour and total cost for the month.
- Calculate a teller efficiency variance for the other six hours of the day expressed in terms of number of tellers per hour and total cost for the month.
- As teller supervisor, explain the significance of the variances calculated in 1 and 2, and explain how you might respond to the uneven work flow during each day.
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Question 8
Direct Labor Cost Budget
Stevenson Inc. budgeted production of 45,000 personal journals in 20Y6. Each journal requires assembly. Assume that two minutes are required to assemble each journal.
If assembly labor costs $17 per hour, determine the direct labor cost budget for 20Y6. Do not round your intermediate calculations but, if required, round your final answer to the nearest dollar.$fill in the blank 1
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and overhead of $10 per customer. In June, the salon had 1,050 customers, and the net income was $8,000.
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Chapter 15 Solutions
Accounting: What the Numbers Mean
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