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Utease Corporation has many production plants across the midwestern United State

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Question

Utease Corporation has many production plants across the midwestern United States. A newly opened plant, the Bellingham plant, produces and sells one product. The plant is treated, for responsibility accounting purposes, as a profit center. The unit standard costs for a production unit, with overhead applied based on direct labor hours, are as follows:

    

   

  

   Assume this is the first year of operations for the Bellingham plant. During the year, the company had the following activity:

   

  

In addition, all over- or underapplied overhead and all product cost variances are adjusted to cost of goods sold.

C.

Find the direct labor variances. Indicate if they are favorable or unfavorable and why they would be considered as such. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting Favorable, Unfavorable, and "None" for no effect. Negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Labor Efficiency Variance = ____________________

Labor Rate Variance = ___________________

d.

Find the direct materials variances (materials price variance and quantity variance). (Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required. Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting Favorable, Unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive values. Enter your answers in dollars not in pounds. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Material Quantity Variance = _______________

Material Price Variance = __________________

e.

Find the total over- or underapplied (both fixed and variable) overhead. Would cost of goods sold be a larger or smaller expense item after the adjustment for over- or underapplied overhead? (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

(Over/Underapplied) Overhead = $_________________

f.

Calculate the actual plant operating profit for the year. (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Operating Profit = _________________

g.

Prepare a flexible budget for the Bellingham plant for its first year of operations. (Input all amounts as positive values. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Assume Utease Corporation is planning to change its evaluation of business operations in all plants from the profit center format to the investment center format. If the average invested capital at the Bellingham plant is $9,070,000, compute the return on investment (ROI) for the first year of operations. Use the DuPont method of evaluation to compute the return on sales (ROS) and capital turnover (CT) for the plant. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places. Omit the "%" sign in your response.)

  

ROI = ________%

ROS = ________%      

Capital Turnover = ________%

Utease Corporation has many production plants across the midwestern United States. A newly opened plant, the Bellingham plant, produces and sells one product. The plant is treated, for responsibility accounting purposes, as a profit center. The unit standard costs for a production unit, with overhead applied based on direct labor hours, are as follows:

Explanation / Answer

Utease Corporation has many production plants across the midwestern United State