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130) Zaino 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 $48,750 and budgeted activity of 7,500 hours.
During the year, the company completed the following transactions:
a. Purchased 45,600 gallons of raw material at a price of $4.90 per gallon.
b. Used 40,220 gallons of the raw material to produce 23,600 units of work in process.
c. Assigned direct labor costs to work in process. The direct labor workers (who were paid in cash)
worked 12,400 hours at an average cost of $21.70 per hour.
d. Applied fixed overhead to the 23,600 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 $34,050. Of this total, -$23,950 related to items such as insurance, utilities, and
indirect labor salaries that were all paid in cash and $58,000 related to depreciation of
manufacturing equipment.
e. Transferred 23,600 units from work in process to finished goods.
f. Sold for cash 23,700 units to customers at a price of $27.20 per unit.
g. Completed and transferred the standard cost associated with the 23,700 units sold from finished
goods to cost of goods sold.
h. Paid $69,000 of selling and administrative expenses.
i. Closed all standard cost variances to cost of goods sold.