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K&J Web Designs creates Web sites for businesses. K&J has a basic Web site creat

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K&J Web Designs creates Web sites for businesses. K&J has a basic Web site creation package that it offers for a flat fee of $720. This package includes everything that a business would need to have a simple but functional Web site built. K&J estimates that each of these Web sites should take, on average, 8.4 hours of Web designer time. K&J pays its Web design employees an average of $37 per hour.

Last month, K&J sold and built 140 Web sites for $720 each. Web design employees worked a total of 810 hours at a total payroll cost of $38,070.

K&J Web Designs creates Web sites for businesses. K&J has a basic Web site creation package that it offers for a flat fee of $720. This package includes everything that a business would need to have a simple but functional Web site built. K&J estimates that each of these Web sites should take, on average, 8.4 hours of Web designer time. K&J pays its Web design employees an average of $37 per hour.

Last month, K&J sold and built 140 Web sites for $720 each. Web design employees worked a total of 810 hours at a total payroll cost of $38,070.

Explanation / Answer

Labor rate Variance = ( Standard Rate - Actual Rate ) * Actual hours worked

= ( 37-38070/810)*810

= ( 37-47)*810 i.e 8100 unfavourable

Labour efficiency variance = ( Stanadard hours - Actual hours ) * Standard rate

= (( 140*8.4)-810)*37

= 13542 Favourable

Standard Contribution margin = Sales - Variable cost

= ( 140*720) - ( 140*8.4*37)

= 100800-43512 i.e 57288

Standard contribution margin per website = 57288/140 i.e 409.20

Actual Contribution margin = ( 140*720) - 38070

= 100800-38070 i.e 62730

Actual Contribution margin per unit = 62730/140 i.e 448.07