Standard Costing and Variance Analysis: Fall 2007 Crosson
Standard Costing and Variance Analysis: Fall 2007 Crosson
Standard Costing and Variance Analysis: Fall 2007 Crosson
Fall 2007
Crosson
Use only with permission of Susan Crosson
Learning Objectives:
ResponsibilityAccounting & Cost Centers
Cost Performance Evaluation using Master
and Flexible Budgets
Standard Costing Basics for Cost Centers
Performance Evaluation using Standard
Costing: Spending and Efficiency Variances
Compute and Analyze DM,DL,VOH, and
FOH variances
Use only with permission of Susan Crosson
Responsibility Accounting:
An information system that classifies data
according to a manager’s responsibilities for
organizational resources
Cost Center:
Manager accountable for costs that have
well-defined relationships between the
center’s resources and products or
services.
Standard Costing
Use only with permission of Susan Crosson
Standard Costing Basics:
ACTUAL FLEXIBLE
PRODUCTION BUDGET
Actual Output Actual Quantity Actual Output
x Actual Quantity x Standard Cost x Standard Quantity
x Actual Cost x Standard Cost
Spending or Efficiency
Price or Rate or Quantity
Variance Variance
ACTUAL FLEXIBLE
PRODUCTION BUDGET
Actual Output Actual Quantity Actual Output
x Actual Quantity x Standard Cost x Standard Quantity
x Actual Cost x Standard Cost
Favorable or Favorable or
Unfavorable Spending Unfavorable Efficiency
or Price or Rate or Quantity Variance
Variance
Variable Overhead
Actual VOH: Applied VOH:
Actual Output Actual Output
x Actual Quantity x Standard Quantity
x Actual Cost x Standard Cost
(SAME AS FLEXIBLE BUDGET!!!)
Underapplied Overapplied
aka Net Spending & aka Net Spending & Efficiency
Efficiency Variances Variances
P4
Look and listen SE6 , SE7, SE8.
P3
P7
P4