Question

Walk Like You Footwear Corporation's flexible budget cost formula for supplies, a variable cost, is $2.67 per unit of output. The company's flexible budget performance report for last month showed a $9,604 favorable spending variance for supplies. During that month, 19,600 units were produced. Budgeted activity for the month had been 19,200 units. The actual cost per unit for supplies must have been:

Answer 1

Actual cost per unit = $2.13

Step-by-step explanation:

The spending variance for equipment and supplies can be calculated as below:

Spending variance = Actual spending - Standard Spending, or:

- 9,604 = Actual spending - Standard cost per unit x Budgeted quantity

- 9,604 = Actual spending - 2.67 x 19,200

Solve the equation we get Actual spending = 41,660.

The actual cost per unit for supplies is calculated as below:

Actual cost per unit = Actual spending/Actual production unit

= 41,660/19,600 = 2.13