Ironwood Company manufactures cast-iron barbeque cookware. During a recent windstorm, it lost some of its cost accounting records. Ironwood has managed to reconstruct portions of its standard cost system database but is still missing a few pieces of information. See attached image Required: Use the information in the table to determine the unknown amounts. You may assume that Ironwood does not keep any raw materials on hand. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance).
Variance Analysis
In layman's terms, variance analysis is an analysis of a difference between planned and actual behavior. Variance analysis is mainly used by the companies to maintain a control over a business. After analyzing differences, companies find the reasons for the variance so that the necessary steps should be taken to correct that variance.
Standard Costing
The standard cost system is the expected cost per unit product manufactured and it helps in estimating the deviations and controlling them as well as fixing the selling price of the product. For example, it helps to plan the cost for the coming year on the various expenses.
Ironwood Company manufactures cast-iron barbeque cookware. During a recent windstorm, it lost some of its cost accounting records. Ironwood has managed to reconstruct portions of its
See attached image
Required:
Use the information in the table to determine the unknown amounts. You may assume that Ironwood does not keep any raw materials on hand. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance).
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