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120) Lusher Corporation manufactures one product. It does not maintain any beginning or ending
Work in Process inventories. The company uses a standard cost system in which inventories are
recorded at their standard costs and any variances are closed directly to Cost of Goods Sold. There
is no variable manufacturing overhead. The standard cost card for the company’s only product is as
follows:
Standard
Quantity
or Hours
Fixed manufacturing overhead
Total standard cost per unit
The company calculated the following variances for the year:
Materials quantity variance
Labor efficiency variance
Fixed manufacturing overhead budget variance
Fixed manufacturing overhead volume variance
The standard fixed manufacturing overhead rate was based on budgeted fixed manufacturing
overhead of $134,750 and budgeted activity of 24,500 hours.
During the year, the company completed the following transactions:
a. Purchased 60,100 kilos of raw material at a price of $5.50 per kilo.
b. Used 55,250 kilos of the raw material to produce 36,900 units of work in process.
c. Assigned direct labor costs to work in process. The direct labor workers (who were paid in
cash) worked 27,030 hours at an average cost of $23.20 per hour.
d. Applied fixed overhead to the 36,900 units in work in process inventory using the
predetermined overhead rate multiplied by the number of direct labor-hours allowed. Actual fixed
overhead costs for the year were $115,250. Of this total, $40,250 related to items such as
insurance, utilities, and indirect labor salaries that were all paid in cash and $75,000 related to
depreciation of manufacturing equipment.
e. Transferred 36,900 units from work in process to finished goods.
d. Sold for cash 39,700 units to customers at a price of $33.60 per unit.
e. Completed and transferred the standard cost associated with the 39,700 units sold from
finished goods to cost of goods sold.
f. Paid $171,000 of selling and administrative expenses.
g. Closed all standard cost variances to cost of goods sold.