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PROBLEM SET B Britney lant's co other than her own salary. The plant has two operating departments and one service department. The re sts Brown, the plant manager of LMN Co.'s Chicago plant, is responsible for all of that p hwasher operating departments manufacture different products and have their own man- Problem 24-1B also manages, provides services equally to the two operating Responsibility occounting agers. The office department, which Brown departments. A monthly budget is prepared for each operating department and the office department. The performance reports sibility accounting system must assemble information to present budgeted and actual controllable and budgeted the plant manager. Each perfor- costs costs in performance reports for each operating department manager and mance report includes only those costs that a particular operating department manager can control: raw materials, wages, supplies used. and equipment depreciation. The plant manager is responsible for t department managers' salaries, utilities, building rent, office salaries other than her own, and other office coss plus all costs controlled by the two operating department managers. The April departmental and actual costs for the two operating departments follow P1 Budget Retrigerators Dishwashers Co Dishwashers Combined $ 600,000 250,000 104,000 24,000 90000 B,000 80,000 141,000 $1.337 000 $202,000 587000 256.200 101.500 23.700 90,000 55,200 82.300 150,000 1,345,900 5385,000 Raw materials Employee wages Dept. maneger salary Supplies used Deprecistion-Equip Utiities Bulding rent Office departmet costs Totals $000,000 170,000 55,000 15.000 53,000 30,000 63,000 0500 5200,000 80,000 49,000 9 000 37,000 8,000 17,000 55.000 14,000 53,000 34,500 65,800 5,000 81,500 46,500 9,700 .000 20.700 16,500 5,000 488 903 The office department's budget and its actual costs lor April follow BudgetActual Plant manager salery Other office selaries Other office costs Totals $????? $85,000 21,000 29,800 5141.000 $150,000 Required 1. Prepare responsil trolled by the following a. Manager of the refrigerator department b. Manager of the dishwasher department. c. Manager of the Chicago plant n each report, include the budgeted and actual cots for the month and show the amount by which 3 900 uch actual cost is over or under the hudgeted amount. ndlysis Component 2. Did the plant manager or the operating department managers better manage costs? Explain

Explanation / Answer

Answer:

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a)

Responsibility Accounting Performance Report

Dept. Manager, Camper Department

For the Year

Budgeted

Actual

Over (Under)

Amount

Amount

Budget

Controllable Costs

Raw materials

$195,000

$194,200

-800

Employee wages

104,000

106,600

2600

Supplies used

33,000

31,700

-1300

Depreciation—Equipment

60,000

60,000

0

Totals

$392,000

$392,500

500

b)

Responsibility Accounting Performance Report

Dept. Manager, Trailer Department

For the Year

Budgeted

Actual

Over (Under)

Amount

Amount

Budget

Controllable Costs

Raw materials

$275,000

$273,200

($1,800)

Employee wages

205,000

206,400

1,400

Supplies used

90,000

91,600

1,600

Depreciation—Equipment

125,000

125,000

0

Totals

$695,000

$696,200

$1,200

c)

Responsibility Accounting Performance Report

Plant Manager, Indiana Plant

For the Year

Budgeted

Actual

Over (Under)

Amount

Amount

Budget

Controllable Costs

Dept. manager salaries

$95,000

$97,500

$2,500

Utilities

9,000

8,300

-700

Building rent

15,000

14,000

-1000

Other office salaries

32,500

30,100

-2400

Other office costs

25,000

23,000

-2000

Camper department

392,000

392,500

500

Trailer department

695,000

696,200

1,200

Total

$1,263,500

$1,261,600

-1900

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Did the plant manager or the operating department manager better manage the cost

Answer:

As comparing operating department of trailers and camper the managers has not manage the cost better because in responsibility accounting performance of camper and trailers department shows over budget of $500 and $ 1200 respectively which is not good for the department.

Plant has manage the cost better because the Responsibility Accounting Performance Report of overall Indaina plant has under budget of $1900 which is good for the company which means he has good control over cost and expenses of overall plant. It will be beneficial to the company that plant manager decision must be implemented

Responsibility Accounting Performance Report

Dept. Manager, Camper Department

For the Year

Budgeted

Actual

Over (Under)

Amount

Amount

Budget

Controllable Costs

Raw materials

$195,000

$194,200

-800

Employee wages

104,000

106,600

2600

Supplies used

33,000

31,700

-1300

Depreciation—Equipment

60,000

60,000

0

Totals

$392,000

$392,500

500