Fundamentals of Cost Accounting
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Author: William N. Lanen Professor, Shannon Anderson Associate Professor, Michael W Maher
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 17, Problem 33E
Sales Price and Activity Variances
EZ-Tax is a tax accounting practice with partners and staff members. Each billable hour of partner time has a $800 budgeted price and $375 budgeted variable cost. Each billable hour of staff time has a budgeted price of $210 and a budgeted variable cost of $120. For the most recent year, the partnership budget called for 5,000 billable partner-hours and 20,000 staff-hours. Actual results were as follows:
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Compute the sales price and activity variances for these data. Also compute the mix and quantity variances.
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EZ-Tax is a tax accounting practice with partners and staff members. Each billable hour of partner time has a $550 budgeted price and $270 budgeted variable cost. Each billable hour of staff time has a budgeted price of $130 and a budgeted variable cost of $60. For the most recent year, the partnership budget called for 7,900 billable partner-hours and 35,700 staff-hours. Actual results were as follows.
Partner revenue
$
4,025,000
7,500
hours
Staff revenue
$
4,580,000
35,000
hours
d. Compute the total sales quantity variance.
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