The actual information pertains to the month of September. As part of the budgeting process, Kriger Fencing Company developed the following static budget for September. Kriger is in the process of preparing the flexible budget and understanding the results.

Actual Flexible Static
Results Budget Budget
Sales volume (in units) 10,000 12,500

Sales revenues $500,000 $ $625,000
Variable costs 256,000 $ 300,000

Contribution margin 244,000 $ 325,000

Fixed costs 229,000 $ 225,000
Operating profit $ 15,000 $ $ 100,000

The primary reason for low operating profits was .

A) lower sales volume than planned

B) a poor management accounting system

C) increased fixed costs

D) the variable-cost variance

Kenney co. uses process costing to account for the production of canned energy drinks. direct materials are added at the beginning of the process and conversion costs are incurred uniformly throughout the process. equivalent units have been calculated to be 19,200 units for materials and 16,000 units for conversion costs. beginning inventory consisted of $11,200 in materials and $6,400 in conversion costs. april costs were $57,600 for materials and $64,000 for conversion costs. ending inventory still in process was 6,400 units (100% complete for materials, 50% for conversion). the total cost per unit using the weighted average method would be closest to:

You are the manager of the packaging department in a cookie factory. (obviously, the packaging employees cannot eat the cookies that are transferred in during the period.) after your employees insert cookies into colorful packages (step 1) for display on store shelves, the packages of cookies are then boxed using cardboard cartons (step 2) for shipment to stores. each unit of product is represented by a carton of packaged cookies. the packaging department began the period with 1,000 units of cookies. during the period, 5,000 units of cookies were transferred in from the baking department and 5,500 units of cookies were transferred out to the finished goods department. the number of units of cookies in the ending inventory of the packaging department equals:

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