Managerial Accounting (5th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134128528
Author: Karen W. Braun, Wendy M. Tietz
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 11, Problem 11.27AE
Compute and interpret
Aloha Foods processes bags of organic frozen fruits sold at specialty grocery stores. The company allocates manufacturing overhead based on direct labor hours. Aloha has budgeted fixed manufacturing overhead for the year to be $626,000. The predetermined fixed manufacturing overhead rate is $16.20 per direct labor hour, while the standard variable manufacturing overhead rate is $0.70 per direct labor hour. The direct labor standard for each case is one-quarter (0.25) of an hour.
The company actually processed 158,000 cases of frozen organic fruits during each year and incurred $682,460 of manufacturing overhead. Of this amount, $636,000 was fixed. The company also incurred a total of 40,400 direct labor hours.
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- 1. How much variable overhead would have been allocated to production? How much fixed overhead would have been allocated to production?
- 2. Compute the variable MOH rate variance and the variable MOH efficiency variance. What do these variances tell managers?
- 3. Compute the fixed MOH
budget variance and the fixed overhead volume variance. What do these variances tell managers?
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Chapter 11 Solutions
Managerial Accounting (5th Edition)
Ch. 11 - (Learning Objective 1) Which of the following is...Ch. 11 - (Learning Objective 2) The direct material price...Ch. 11 - Prob. 3QCCh. 11 - Prob. 4QCCh. 11 - Prob. 5QCCh. 11 - (Learning Objective 4) Which of the following is...Ch. 11 - Prob. 7QCCh. 11 - (Learning Objective 6) Which of the following is...Ch. 11 - Prob. 9QCCh. 11 - (Learning Objective 7Appendix) Which of the...
Ch. 11 - Compute the standard cost of direct materials...Ch. 11 - Compute the standard cost of direct labor...Ch. 11 - Explain a direct material variance (Learning...Ch. 11 - Prob. 11.4SECh. 11 - Calculate direct material variances when the...Ch. 11 - Calculate direct labor variances (Learning...Ch. 11 - Prob. 11.7SECh. 11 - Prob. 11.8SECh. 11 - Calculate fixed overhead variances (Learning...Ch. 11 - Calculate and interpret fixed overhead variances...Ch. 11 - Prob. 11.11SECh. 11 - Calculate and interpret overhead variances...Ch. 11 - Record costing transactions (Learning Objective 7)...Ch. 11 - Record standard costing transactions (Learning...Ch. 11 - Identify ethical standards violated (Learning...Ch. 11 - Vocabulary (Learning Objectives 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)...Ch. 11 - Calculate standard cost and gross profit per unit...Ch. 11 - Calculate standard cost per unit (Learning...Ch. 11 - Calculate and explain direct material variances...Ch. 11 - Calculate missing direct material variables...Ch. 11 - Calculate and explain direct labor variances...Ch. 11 - Calculate and interpret direct material and direct...Ch. 11 - Calculate the material and labor variances...Ch. 11 - Record materials and labor transactions (Learning...Ch. 11 - Calculate the standard cost of a product before...Ch. 11 - Recognize advantages and disadvantages of standard...Ch. 11 - Compute and interpret overhead variances (Learning...Ch. 11 - Data Set for E11-28A through E11-32A Country...Ch. 11 - Data Set for E11-28A through E11-32A Country...Ch. 11 - Data Set for E11-28A through E11-32A Country...Ch. 11 - Make journal entries in a standard costing system...Ch. 11 - Prepare a standard cost income statement (Learning...Ch. 11 - Calculate standard cost and gross profit per unit...Ch. 11 - Calculate the standard cost per unit (Learning...Ch. 11 - Calculate and explain direct material variances...Ch. 11 - Calculate missing direct material variables...Ch. 11 - Calculate and explain direct labor variances...Ch. 11 - Prob. 11.38BECh. 11 - Prob. 11.39BECh. 11 - Prob. 11.40BECh. 11 - Prob. 11.41BECh. 11 - Recognize advantages and disadvantages of standard...Ch. 11 - Calculate and interpret overhead variances...Ch. 11 - Prob. 11.44BECh. 11 - Prob. 11.45BECh. 11 - Prob. 11.46BECh. 11 - Prob. 11.47BECh. 11 - Prob. 11.48BECh. 11 - Prob. 11.49APCh. 11 - Comprehensive standards and variances problem...Ch. 11 - Comprehensive standards and variances problem...Ch. 11 - Prob. 11.52APCh. 11 - Prob. 11.53APCh. 11 - Prob. 11.54BPCh. 11 - Comprehensive standards and variances problem...Ch. 11 - Comprehensive standards and variances problem...Ch. 11 - Work backward through labor variances (Learning...Ch. 11 - Determine all variances and make journal entries...Ch. 11 - Calculate labor variances in a hotel (Learning...
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