X department is a division of W Plc. X department usually has a quarterly wages cost of $4,500,000. Quarterly material costs are usually around $2,000,000. W Plc made a central decision to award all employees a wages increase of 2%.Which of the following variances for the latest quarter are worth investigating?(i) Direct material price variance $400 (A)(ii) Labour rate variance $90,000 (A)(iii) Sales volume variance $4,000,000 (F)
Budgeted production in a factory for next period is 4,800 units. Each unit requires five labour hours to make. Labour is paid $10 per hour. Idle time represents 20% of the total labour time.What is the budgeted total labour cost for the next period?
Which of the following statements are true? (i) A flexed budget allows businesses to evaluate a manager's performance more fairly (ii) A fixed budget is useful for defining the broad objectives of the organisation (iii) Relying on fixed budgets alone would usually give rise to massive variances
A Local Authority is preparing a cash budget for its refuse disposal department. Which of the following items would NOT be included in the cash budget?
A company plans to sell 24,000 units of product R next year. Opening inventory of R is expected to be 2,000 units and PQ Co plans to increase inventory by 25 per cent by the end of the year. How many units of product R should be produced next year?
Each unit of product Alpha requires 3 kg of raw material. Next month's production budget for product Alpha is as follows.
Opening inventories:
Raw materials 15,000kg
Finished units of Alpha 2,000 units
Budgeted sales of Alpha 60,000 units
Planned closing inventories:
Raw materials 7,000kg
Finished units of Alpha 3,000 units
How many kilograms of raw materials should be purchased next month?
Budgeted sales of X for December are 18,000 units. At the end of the production process for X, 10% of production units are scrapped as defective. Opening inventories of X for December are budgeted to be 15,000 units and closing inventories will be 11,400 units. All inventories of finished goods must have successfully passed the quality control check. What is the production budget for X for December?
A company manufactures a single product, M. Budgeted production output of product M during August is 200 units. Each unit of product M requires 6 labour hours for completion and PR Co anticipates 20 per cent idle time. Labour is paid at a rate of $7 per hour. What is the direct labour cost budget for August?
Each unit of product Echo takes five direct labour hours to make. Quality standards are high, and 8% of units are rejected after completion as sub-standard. Next month's budgets are as follows.Opening inventories of finished goods 3,000 units Planned closing inventories of finished goods 7,600 units Budgeted sales of Echo 36,800 unitsAll inventories of finished goods must have successfully passed the quality control check.What is the direct labour hours budget for the month?
Misty Co's budgetary control report for last month is as follows:
Fixed budget Flexed budget Actual results
$ $ $
Direct costs 61,100 64,155 67,130
Production overhead 55,000 56,700 54,950
Other overhead 10,000 10,000 11,500
126,100 130,855 133,580
What was the volume variance for last month?