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Paynesville Corporation manufactures and sells a preservative used in food and drug manufacturing. The company carries no inventories. The master budget calls for the company to manufacture and sell 100,000 liters at a budgeted price of $75 per liter this year. The standard direct cost sheet for one liter of the preservative follows.
Direct materials (2 pounds @ $4) $ 8 Direct labor (0.5 hours @ $24) 12
Variable overhead is applied based on direct labor hours. The variable overhead rate is $20 per direct-labor hour. The fixed overhead rate (at the master budget level of activity) is $10 per unit. All non-manufacturing costs are fixed and are budgeted at $1.2 million for the coming year.
At the end of the year, the costs analyst reported that the sales activity variance for the year was $270,000 unfavorable.
The following is the actual income statement (in thousands of dollars) for the year.
Sales revenue $7,238 Less variable costs 748 Direct materials Direct labor 1,010 Variable overhead 930 Total variable costs $2,688 Contribution margin $4,550 Less fixed costs Fixed manufacturing overhead 1,050 Non—manufacturing costs 1,230 Total fixed costs $2,280 Operating profit $2,270
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What are the fixed overhead price and production volume variances for Paynesville? (Enter your answers in whole dollars. Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, or "U" for unfavorable. If there is no effect, do not select either option.)
Computation of Fixed Overhead Price and Production Volume Variances for Paynesville:
Budgeted contribution margin per unit = Selling price - Variable cost per unit
= $75 - ($8+$12+($20/0.5))
= $75 - $30
= $45 per unit
Actual units sold = Budgeted sales units - Unfavorable sales activity variance / Budgeted contribution margin per unit
= 100,000 - ($270,000 / $45)
= 100,000 - 6,000
= 94,000
Fixed Overhead Price Variance = Budgeted fixed overhead - Actual fixed overhead
= (100,000*$10) - $1,050,000
= $1,000,000 - $1,050,000
= $50,000 U
Fixed overhead volume variance = Fixed overhead applied - Budgeted fixed overhead
= (94,000*$10) - (100000*$10)
= $940,000 - $1,000,000
= $60,000 U