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Chapter 23Flexible Budgets

and StandardCost Systems

Chapter 23 Learning Objectives

1. Prepare flexible budgets and performance reports using static and flexible budgets

2. Identify the benefits of a standard cost system and understand how standards are set

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3. Compute the standard cost variances for direct materials and direct labor

4. Compute the standard cost variances for manufacturing overhead



5. Describe the relationship among and responsibility for the product cost variances

6. Record transactions in a standard cost system and prepare a standard cost income statement


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Learning Objective 1

Prepare flexible budgets and performance reports using static and flexible budgets


HOW DO MANAGERS USE BUDGETS TO CONTROL BUSINESS ACTIVITIES?

• Managers use budgets for planning and controlling business activities.

• The master budget focuses on the planning step.

• The controlling step involves the decisions managers make during and after the budgeting period, based on the actual results.


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HOW DO MANAGERS USE BUDGETS TO CONTROL BUSINESS ACTIVITIES?

Performance Reports Using Static Budgets

• The master budget is a static budget, which means it is prepared for only one level of sales volume.

• A budget performance report is a report that summarizes the actual results, budgeted amounts, and the differences.

• A variance is the difference between an actual amount and the budgeted amount.

• A static budget variance is the difference between actual results and the expected results in the static budget.


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Performance Reports Using Static Budgets

• Variances are: – Favorable (F) if an actual amount increases

operating income:• Actual revenue > Budgeted revenue

• Actual expense < Budgeted expense

– Unfavorable (U) if an actual amount decreases operating income:

• Actual revenue < Budgeted revenue

• Actual expense > Budgeted expense


Performance Reports Using

Flexible Budgets


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Preparing Flexible Budgets

• A flexible budget summarizes revenues and expenses for various levels of sales volume within a relevant range.

• Flexible budgets separate variable costs from fixed costs.

• The variable costs put the flex in the flexible budget.



To create a flexible budget, you need:• Budgeted selling price per unit• Budgeted variable cost per unit

– Budgeted product costs– Budgeted variable selling and administrative

expenses• Total budgeted fixed costs

– Budgeted fixed manufacturing overhead costs– Budgeted fixed selling and administrative expenses

• Different volume levels within the relevant range


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Budget Variances

• Managers want to know why a variance occurred.– A flexible budget variance is the difference

between actual results and expected results in the flexible budget for actual units sold.

– A sales volume variance is the difference between expected results in the flexible budget for the actual units sold and the static budget.


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Budget Variances


Budget Variances


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Identify the benefits of a standard cost system and understand how standards are set


WHY DO MANAGERS USE A STANDARD COST SYSTEM TO

CONTROL BUSINESS ACTIVITIES?

• Most companies use standards to develop budgets.

• A standard is the price, cost, or quantity that is expected under normal conditions.

• A standard cost system is an accounting system that uses standards for product costs.


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Setting Standards


Cost Standards


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Efficiency Standards

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• Production managers and engineers set direct materials and direct labor efficiency standards.

• Labor standards are established from analyzing the production process.

• Efficiency standards are based on best practices, called benchmarking.

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Standard Cost System Benefits

Standard costing helps managers:• Prepare the master budget• Set target levels of performance for

flexible budgets• Identify performance standards• Set sales prices of products and services• Decrease accounting costs


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Variance Analysis for Product Costs



• A cost variance measures how well the business keeps unit cost of material and labor inputs within standards.

• The cost variance is the difference in costs of an input multiplied by the actual quantity used of the input.


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• An efficiency variance measures how well the business uses its materials or human resources.

• The efficiency variance is the difference in the quantities multiplied by the standard cost per unit of the input.




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Compute the standard cost variances for direct materials and direct labor


HOW ARE STANDARD COSTS USED TO DETERMINE DIRECT MATERIALS AND

DIRECT LABOR VARIANCES?


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Direct Materials Variances

• The flexible budget variance for direct materials is $13,000 unfavorable.

• Additional data concerning direct materials follow, including standards discussed in the previous section:


Direct Materials Cost Variance

The direct materials cost variance is $9,750 favorable.


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Direct Materials Efficiency Variance

• The direct materials efficiency variance is $22,750 unfavorable.

• The variance is unfavorable because workers used more paraffin than planned for 52,000 batches of crayons.


Summary of Direct Materials Variance


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Direct Labor Variances

• Cheerful Colors uses a similar approach to analyze the direct labor flexible budget variance. The flexible budget variance for direct labor is $10,400 favorable, as shown in Exhibit 23-10.

• Additional data concerning direct labor follow, including standards discussed in the previous section:


Direct Labor Cost Variance

• The direct labor cost variance is $20,800 unfavorable.

• The $20,800 direct labor cost variance is unfavorable because Cheerful Colors paid worker $2.00 more per hour than budgeted ($14.00 actual cost – $12.00 standard cost).


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Direct Labor Efficiency Variance

• The direct labor efficiency variance is $31,200 favorable.

• The direct labor efficiency variance is favorable because laborers worked fewer hours than budgeted to produce 52,000 batches of crayons.


Summary of Direct Labor Variances


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Compute the standard cost variances for manufacturing overhead


HOW ARE STANDARD COSTS USED TO DETERMINE MANUFACTURING

OVERHEAD VARIANCES?

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• The terms manufacturing overhead and overhead are often used interchangeably.

• The total overhead variance is the difference between:


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Allocating Overhead in a Standard Cost System

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In a standard cost system, the manufacturing overhead allocated to production is as follows:


Variable Overhead Variances

• The approach to analyze the variable overhead flexible budget variance is similar to the approaches for the other variances.

• The information to calculate the overhead variances is as follows:


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Variable Overhead Cost Variance

• The variable overhead cost variance is $1,040 favorable.

• Cheerful Colors paid less than expected for variable overhead.


Variable Overhead Efficiency Variance

• The variable overhead efficiency variance is $7,800 favorable.

• The variance is favorable because the laborers worked less than expected.


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Summary of Variable Overhead Variances


Fixed Overhead Variances

• The approach to analyze fixed overhead variances differs from the process used for the variable cost variances.

• To analyze fixed overhead costs, we need:– Actual fixed overhead costs incurred– Budgeted fixed overhead costs– Allocated fixed overhead costs


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Fixed Overhead Cost Variance

The fixed overhead cost variance measures the difference between actual fixed overhead and budgeted fixed overhead.


Fixed Overhead Volume Variance

The fixed overhead volume variance is the difference between the budgeted fixed overhead and the amount of fixed overhead allocated.


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Fixed Overhead Volume Variance


Summary of Fixed Overhead Variances

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Describe the relationship among and responsibility for the product cost variances


WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG THE PRODUCT COST VARIANCES, AND

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM?


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Variance Relationships


Variance Responsibilities

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• Cheerful Colors should investigate the variances it feels are significant.

• A situation called management by exception occurs when managers concentrate on results that are outside the accepted parameters.– Managers focus on the exceptions.– Exceptions are either a percentage or dollar

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Variance Responsibilities



Record transactions in a standard cost system and prepare a standard cost income statement


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HOW DO JOURNAL ENTRIES DIFFER IN A STANDARD COST SYSTEM?

• Using a standard cost system simplifies the recording process because entries are made at standard costs.

• Variances are recorded as soon as possible.


Transaction 1—Direct Materials Purchased


• Cheerful Colors records a debit to Raw Materials Inventory for the standard price for the paraffin (65,000 pounds × $1.75).

• The favorable variance of $9,750 is also recorded.

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Transaction 2—Direct Materials Usage


• When material is transferred to the Work-in-Process Inventory account, the amount at standard cost is the debit, and the unfavorable efficiency variance is recorded.

Transaction 3—Direct Labor


• Work-in-Process Inventory is debited for the standard costs of the 13,000 direct labor hours.

• Wages Payable is credited for the actual cost paid to employees, and the unfavorable direct labor cost variance is recorded, along with a favorable efficiency variance.

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Transaction 4—Overhead Incurred

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Manufacturing Overhead is debited for the actual fixed and variable costs of $54,080.


Transaction 5—Overhead Allocated

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The amount of overhead allocated and recorded to Work-in-Process Inventory is:


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Transaction 6—Completed Goods


The standard cost of the 52,000 batches of crayons completed is transferred from Work-in-Process Inventory to Finished Goods Inventory.

Transaction 7—Cost of Goods Sold


The crayons were sold during 2019, so the standard costs are transferred from Finished Goods Inventory to Cost of Goods Sold.

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Transaction 8—Adjust Manufacturing Overhead


The Manufacturing Overhead account is adjusted, and the overhead variances are recorded.


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Standard Cost

Income Statement



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