Pulence Clothing is a manufacturer of designer suits. For June 2017 2017, each suit is budgeted to take 4 4 labor-hours. The budgeted number of suits to be manufactured in June 2017 2017 is 1 comma 100 1,100. Opulence Opulence Clothing allocates fixed manufacturing overhead to each suit using budgeted direct manufacturing labor-hours per suit. Data pertaining to fixed manufacturing overhead costs for June 2017 2017 are budgeted, $ 74 comma 800 $74,800, and actual, $ 63 comma 900 $63,900. In June 2017 2017 there were 1 comma 120 1,120 suits started and completed. There were no beginning or ending inventories of suits. Requirements 1. Compute the spending variance for fixed manufacturing overhead. Comment on the results. 2. Compute the production-volume variance for June 2017 2017. What inferences can Opulence Opulence Clothing draw from this variance? Requirement 1. Compute the spending variance for fixed manufacturing overhead. Comment on the results. Begin by computing the following amounts for the fixed manufacturing overhead. Flexible Budget: Actual Costs Incurred Same Budgeted Lump Sum Regardless of Output Level Same Budgeted Lump Sum Regardless of Output Level Allocated Overhead

Blue computers, a major pc manufacturer in the united states, currently has plants in kentucky and pennsylvania. the kentucky plant has a capacity of 1 million units a year and the pennsylvania plant has a capacity of 1.5 million units a year. the firm divides the united states into five markets: northeast, southeast, midwest, south, and west. each pc sells for $1,000. the firm anticipates a 50 perc~nt growth in demand (in each region) this year (after which demand will stabilize) and wants to build a plant with a capacity of 1.5 million units per year to accommodate the growth. potential sites being considered are in north carolina and california. currently the firm pays federal, state, and local taxes on the income from each plant. federal taxes are 20 percent of income, and all state and local taxes are 7 percent of income in each state. north carolina has offered to reduce taxes for the next 10 years from 7 percent to 2 percent. blue computers would like to take the tax break into consideration when planning its network. consider income over the next 10 years in your analysis. assume that all costs remain unchanged over the 10 years. use a discount factor of 0.1 for your analysis. annual fixed costs, production and shipping costs per unit, and current regional demand (before the 50 percent growth) are shown in table 5-13. (a) if blue computers sets an objective of minimizing total fixed and variable costs, where should they build the new plant? how should the network be structured? (b) if blue computers sets an objective of maximizing after-tax profits, where should they build the new plant? how should the network be structured? variable production and shipping cost ($/unit) annual fixed cost northeast southeast midwest south west (million$) kentucky 185 180 175 175 200 150 pennsylvania 170 190 180 200 220 200 n. carolina 180 180 185 185 215 150 california 220 220 195 195 175 150 demand ('000 units/month) 700 400 400 300 600