EZ-Tax is a tax accounting practice with partners and staff members. Each billab
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EZ-Tax is a tax accounting practice with partners and staff members. Each billable hour of partner time has a $570 budgeted price and $280 budgeted variable cost. Each billable hour of staff time has a budgeted price of $140 and a budgeted variable cost of $90. For the most recent year, the partnership budget called for 8,800 billable partner-hours and 32,700 staff-hours. Actual results were as follows:
Required:
a. Compute the sales price variance. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, or "U" for unfavorable. If there is no effect, do not select either option.)
b. Compute the total sales activity variance. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, or "U" for unfavorable. If there is no effect, do not select either option.)
c. Compute the total sales mix variance. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, or "U" for unfavorable. If there is no effect, do not select either option.)
d. Compute the total sales quantity variance. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, or "U" for unfavorable. If there is no effect, do not select either option.)
Partner revenue $ 4,584,000 8,200 hours Staff revenue $ 4,505,000 32,000 hoursExplanation / Answer
a) Sales price variance = (actual price - standard price) * actual sales units
b) Tota sale activity variance = sale mix variance + sale volume varaince
= -77840.96 + (-131159.04)
= -$209000 U
c) sales mix variance
d) Sales quantity variance
Partner Staff Actual sales 8200 32000 Actual price $559.02 $140.78 Standard price $570 $140 Sales price variance -$90,000.00 $25,000.00 Effect U FRelated Questions
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