MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING
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Chapter 9, Problem 6E
EXERCISE 9-6 Critique a Variance ReportLO9-6
The Terminator Inc. provides on-site residential pest extermination services. The company has several mobile teams who are dispatched from a central location in company-owned trucks. The company uses the number of jobs to measure activity. At the beginning of April, the company budgeted for 100 jobs, but the actual number of jobs turned out to be 105. A report comparing the budgeted revenues and costs to the actual revenues and costs appears below:
Required:
Is the above variance report useful for evaluating how well revenues and costs were controlled during April? Why, or why not?
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The Terminator Inc. provides on-site residential pest extermination services. The company bas several mobile teams who are dispatched from a central location in company-owned trucks. The company uses the number of jobs to measure activity. At the beginning of April, the company budgeted for 100 jobs, but the actual number of jobs turned out to be 105. A report comparing the budgeted revenues and costs to the actual revenues and costs appears below:
Required:
Is the above variance report useful for evaluating how well revenues and costs were controlled during April? Why or Why not?
Lavage Rapide is a Canadian company that owns and operates a large automatic car wash facility near Montreal. The following table
provides estimates concerning the company's costs:
Fixed Cost Cost per Car
per Month
Washed
Cleaning supplies
Electricity
$ 0. 60
$ 0. 08
$ 0. 25
$ 0. 20
$ 1,300
Maintenance
Wages and salaries
Depreciation
$ 4,400
$ 8,100
$ 1,900
$ 1,600
Rent
Administrative expenses
$ 0.03
For example, electricity costs should be $1,300 per month plus $0.08 per car washed. The company expects to wash 8,100 cars in
August and to collect an average of $6.50 per car washed.
The actual operating results for August are as follows:
Lavage Rapide
Income Statement
For the Month Ended August 31
Actual cars washed
8,200
Revenue
$ 54,750
Expenses:
Cleaning supplies
Electricity
5,360
1,918
2,265
6,380
8,100
2,100
Maintenance
Wages and salaries
Depreciation
Rent
Administrative expenses
Total expense
1,743
27,866
$ 26,884
Net operating income
Required:
Prepare a flexible budget…
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Concord Incasements manufactures protective cases for MP3 players. During November, the company's workers clocked 830 more
direct labor hours than the flexible budget amount of 25,620 hours to complete 112,600 cases for the Christmas season. All workers
were paid $9.03 per hour, which was $0.47 less than the standard wage rate.
Calculate Concord's direct labor efficiency variance.
Direct labor efficiency variance
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Chapter 9 Solutions
MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING
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EXERCISE 9-3 Revenue and Spending Variances...Ch. 9 - Prob. 4ECh. 9 - Prob. 5ECh. 9 - EXERCISE 9-6 Critique a Variance ReportLO9-6 The...Ch. 9 - Prob. 7ECh. 9 - EXERCISE 9-8 Flexible Budgets and Activity...Ch. 9 - Fixed Cost...Ch. 9 - ...Ch. 9 -
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EXERCISE 9-14 Prepare a Flexible Budget...Ch. 9 - Prob. 15ECh. 9 -
EXERCISE 9-16 Flexible Budgets and Revenue and...Ch. 9 - EXERCISE 9-17 Flexible Budget Performance Report...Ch. 9 - Prob. 18ECh. 9 - PROBLEM 919: Flexible Budget Performance Reports;...Ch. 9 -
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