Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis (16th Edition)
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Chapter 9, Problem 9.46P
Cost allocation, responsibility accounting, ethics (continuation of Problem 9-45). In 2018, only 876,000 Mealman meals were produced and sold to the hospitals. Wright suspects that hospital controllers had systematically inflated their 2018 meal estimates.
- 1. Recall that Mealman uses the master-budget capacity utilization to allocate fixed costs and to price meals. What was the effect of production-volume variance on Mealman’s operating income in 2018?
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- 2. Why might hospital controllers deliberately overestimate their future meal counts?
- 3. What other evidence should Meals To Go’s president seek to investigate Wright’s concerns?
- 4. Suggest two specific steps that Wright might take to reduce hospital controllers’ incentives to inflate their estimated meal counts.
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Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis (16th Edition)
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