Managerial Accounting
17th Edition
ISBN: 9781260247787
Author: Ray H. Garrison, Eric W. Noreen, Peter C. Brewer
Publisher: RENT MCG
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Chapter 9, Problem 16E
To determine
Concept Introduction:
Flexible budget performance report: This is a report that compares actual outcomes for a period to budgeted results produced by a flexible budget. This report differs from a traditional budget. This method yields budgeted expenses that are significantly more relevant to an organization's actual performance.
To prepare: A flexible budget performance report.
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Flexible Budget Performance Report
AirQual Test Corporation provides on-site air quality testing services. The company has provided the following cost formulas and actual results for the month of February:
The company uses the number of jobs as its measure of activity. For example, mobile lab operating expenses should be $2,900 plus $35 per job, and the actual mobile lab operating expenses for February were $4,530. The company expected to work 50 jobs in February, but actually worked 52 jobs.
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Using Exhibit 9–8 as your guide, prepare a flexible budget performance report showing AirQual Test corporation’s revenue and spending variances and activity variances for February.
Exhibit 9–8 Performance Report Combining Activity Variances with Revenue and Spending Variances
Scenario
The Francis Corporation operates two service and two producing departments in its production of go carts. The budgeted overhead
costs directly associated with the departments and other pertinent data for an upcoming month are as follows:
Overhead Costs
Machine Hours
Number of Employees
19.67 (rounded)
16.67 (rounded)
3.00
14.74 (rounded)
Service & Production Departments Data
Service Departments
Maintenance
$144,000
20
O 15.87
Personnel
$80,000
16
Personnel costs are allocated based on the number of employees, and maintenance costs are allocated based on machine hours.
Assume the Assembly department uses direct labor hours to allocate its cost is overhead costs. For the upcoming month, the
estimated direct labor hours is estimated is 19,200 hours.
Question
What will be the predetermined overhead rate for the Assembly department for the upcoming month?
Production Departments
Tooling
$280,000
30,000
60
Assembly
$320,000
20,000
100
Aero Travel Trailer Manufacturing is working on budgeting utility cost. The controller has decided that utilities are a function of the hours worked during the month. The following information is available and representative of the company’s utility costs:
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Hours worked
Utility cost incurred
Low point
1,300
$ 903
High point
1,680
1,074
If 1,425 hours are worked in a month, total utility cost (rounded to the nearest dollar) using the high-low method should be
Group of answer choices
$947.
$959.
$954.
$976.
Chapter 9 Solutions
Managerial Accounting
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