EF manufactures and sells three products, X, Y and Z. The following production overhead costs are budgeted for next year:
Required:
Calculate the total budgeted production overhead cost for each product using activity based budgeting.
A company uses a standard costing system.
The company’s sales budget for the latest period includes 1,500 units of a product with a selling price of $400 per unit.
The product has a budgeted contribution to sales ratio of 30%.
Actual sales for the period were 1,630 units at a selling price of $390 per unit.
The actual contribution to sales ratio was 28%.
The sales volume contribution variance for the product for the latest period is:
A company sells two products, X and Y, which are always sold in the same ratio.
No inventories are held.
The following budgeted data relate to month 10:
What is the budgeted margin of safety in month 10?
Explain the advantages of management participation in budget setting and the potential problems that may arise in the use of the resulting budget as a control mechanism.
Select all the correct answers.