Koontz Company manufactures a number of products. The standards relating to one of these products are shown below, along with actual cost data for May. Standard Cost per UnitActual Cost per UnitDirect materials:Standard: 1.80 feet at $2.00 per foot$ 3.60Actual: 1.75 feet at $2.20 per foot$ 3.85Direct labor:Standard: 0.90 hours at $20.00 per hour18.00Actual: 0.95 hours at $19.40 per hour18.43Variable overhead:Standard: 0.90 hours at $6.40 per hour5.76Actual: 0.95 hours at $6.00 per hour5.70Total cost per unit$ 27.36$ 27.98Excess of actual cost over standard cost per unit$ 0.62 The production superintendent was pleased when he saw this report and commented: “This $0.62 excess cost is well within the 5 percent limit management has set for acceptable variances. It's obvious that there's not much to worry about with this product." Actual production for the month was 12,500 units. Variable overhead cost is assigned to products on the basis of direct labor-hours. There were no beginning or ending inventories of materials. Required: 1. Compute the following variances for May: a. Materials price and quantity variances. b. Labor rate and efficiency variances. c. Variable overhead rate and efficiency variances.2. How much of the $0.62 excess unit cost is traceable to each of the variances computed in (1) above. 3. How much of the $0.62 excess unit cost is traceable to apparent inefficient use of labor time?

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SM3 Koontz Company manufactures a number of products. The standards relating to one of these products are shown below, along with actual cost data for May. Standard Cost per UnitActual Cost per UnitDirect materials:Standard: 1.80 feet at $2.00 per foot$ 3.60Actual: 1.75 feet at $2.20 per foot$ 3.85Direct labor:Standard: 0.90 hours at $20.00 per hour18.00Actual: 0.95 hours at $19.40 per hour18.43Variable overhead:Standard: 0.90 hours at $6.40 per hour5.76Actual: 0.95 hours at $6.00 per hour5.70Total cost per unit$ 27.36$ 27.98Excess of actual cost over standard cost per unit$ 0.62 The production superintendent was pleased when he saw this report and commented: “This $0.62 excess cost is well within the 5 percent limit management has set for acceptable variances. It's obvious that there's not much to worry about with this product." Actual production for the month was 12,500 units. Variable overhead cost is assigned to products on the basis of direct labor-hours. There were no beginning or ending inventories of materials. Required: 1. Compute the following variances for May: a. Materials price and quantity variances. b. Labor rate and efficiency variances. c. Variable overhead rate and efficiency variances. 2. How much of the $0.62 excess unit cost is traceable to each of the variances computed in (1) above. 3. How much of the $0.62 excess unit cost is traceable to apparent inefficient use of labor time?

Definition Definition System of assigning an estimated cost to the product (instead of the actual cost) so that the product cost can be determined well in advance and the pricing of the product can be done on time. Since the actual cost cannot be predicted at the initial stage of the production process, the estimated cost is recorded in the books. Any deviation of the estimated cost of the actual cost is adjusted in the books at the end of the period.

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