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Price and efficiency variances, journal entries. the schuyler corporation manufactures lamps. it has set up the following standards per finished unit for direct materials and direct manufacturing labor: direct materials: 10 lb. at $4.50 per lb. $45.00 direct manufacturing labor: 0.5 hour at $30 per hour 15.00 the number of finished units budgeted for january 2017 was 10,000; 9,850 units were actually produced. actual results in january 2017 were as follows: direct materials: 98,055 lb. used direct manufacturing labor: 4,900 hours $154,350 assume that there was no beginning inventory of either direct materials or finished units. during the month, materials purchased amounted to 100,000 lb., at a total cost of $465,000. input price variances are isolated upon purchase. input-efficiency variances are isolated at the time of usage. 1. compute the january 2017 price and efficiency variances of direct materials and direct manufacturing labor. 2. prepare journal entries to record the variances in requirement 1. 3. comment on the january 2017 price and efficiency variances of schuyler corporation. 4. why might schuyler calculate direct materials price variances and direct materials efficiency variances with reference to different points in time

An outside manufacturer has offered to produce 60,000 daks and ship them directly to andretti's customers. if andretti company accepts this offer, the facilities that it uses to produce daks would be idle; however, fixed manufacturing overhead costs would be reduced by 75%. because the outside manufacturer would pay for all shipping costs, the variable selling expenses would be only two-thirds of their present amount. what is andretti's avoidable cost per unit that it should compare to the price quoted by the outside manufacturer?

howard, fine, & howard is an advertising agency. the firm uses an activity-based costing system to allocate overhead costs to its services. information about the firm's activity cost pool rates follows: stooge company was a client of howard, fine, & howard. recently, 7 administrative assistant hours, 3 new ad campaigns, and 8 meeting hours were incurred for the stooge company account. using the activity-based costing system, how much overhead cost would be allocated to the stooge company account?