Utease Corporation has many production plants across the midwestern United State
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Utease Corporation has many production plants across the midwestern United States. A newly opened plant, the Bellingham plant, produces and sells one product. The plant is treated, for responsibility accounting purposes, as a profit center. The unit standard costs for a production unit, with overhead applied based on direct labor hours, are as follows:
Assume this is the first year of operations for the Bellingham plant. During the year, the company had the following activity:
In addition, all over- or underapplied overhead and all product cost variances are adjusted to cost of goods sold.
Prepare a production budget for the coming year based on the available standards, expected sales, and desired ending inventories. (Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)
Prepare a budgeted responsibility income statement for the Bellingham plant for the coming year. (Input all amounts as positive values. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)
Find the direct labor variances. Indicate if they are favorable or unfavorable and why they would be considered as such. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive values. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)
Find the direct materials variances (materials price variance and quantity variance). (Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required. Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting Favorable, Unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive values. Enter your answers in dollars not in pounds. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)
Find the total over- or underapplied (both fixed and variable) overhead. Would cost of goods sold be a larger or smaller expense item after the adjustment for over- or underapplied overhead? (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)
Would cost of goods sold be a larger or smaller expense item after the adjustment for over- or underapplied overhead?
Calculate the actual plant operating profit for the year. (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)
Prepare a flexible budget for the Bellingham plant for its first year of operations. (Input all amounts as positive values. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)
Assume Utease Corporation is planning to change its evaluation of business operations in all plants from the profit center format to the investment center format. If the average invested capital at the Bellingham plant is $8,950,000, compute the return on investment (ROI) for the first year of operations. Use the DuPont method of evaluation to compute the return on sales (ROS) and capital turnover (CT) for the plant. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places. Omit the "%" sign in your response.)
Assume that under the investment center evaluation plan the plant manager will be awarded a bonus based on ROI. If the manager has the opportunity in the coming year to invest in new equipment for $500,000 that will generate incremental earnings of $75,000 per year, would the manager undertake the project?
Manufacturing costs (per unit based on expected activity of 24,000 units or 36,000 direct labor hours): Direct materials (2 pounds at $20) $ 40.00 Direct labor (1.5 hours at $90) 135.00 Variable overhead (1.5 hours at $20) 30.00 Fixed overhead (1.5 hours at $30) 45.00 Standard cost per unit $ 250.00 Budgeted selling and administrative costs: Variable $ 5 per unit Fixed $ 1,800,000Explanation / Answer
Find the total over- or underapplied (both fixed and variable) overhead. Would cost of goods sold be a larger or smaller expense item after the adjustment for over- or underapplied overhead?(Omit the "$" sign in your response.)
Would cost of goods sold be a larger or smaller expense item after the adjustment for over- or underapplied overhead?
Calculate the actual plant operating profit for the year. (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)
e-1Find the total over- or underapplied (both fixed and variable) overhead. Would cost of goods sold be a larger or smaller expense item after the adjustment for over- or underapplied overhead?(Omit the "$" sign in your response.)
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