Aunt emily's food products is famous for its frosted fruit cake. the main ingredient of the cake is dried fruit, which aunt emily's purchases by the pound. in addition, the production requires a certain amount of direct labor. aunt emily's uses a standard cost system, and at the end of the first quarter, there was a favorable direct materials cost variance. which of the following is a logical explanation for that variance?

One pound of material is required for each finished unit. the inventory of materials at the end of each month should equal 20% of the following month's production needs. purchases of raw materials for february would be budgeted to be:

Cherokee inc. is a merchandiser that provided the following information: amount number of units sold 20,000 selling price per unit $ 30 variable selling expense per unit $ 4 variable administrative expense per unit $ 2 total fixed selling expense $ 40,000 total fixed administrative expense $ 30,000 beginning merchandise inventory $ 24,000 ending merchandise inventory $ 44,000 merchandise purchases $ 180,000 required: 1. prepare a traditional income statement. 2. prepare a contribution format income statement.

Owns a machine that can produce two specialized products. production time for product tlx is two units per hour and for product mtv is four units per hour. the machine’s capacity is 2,100 hours per year. both products are sold to a single customer who has agreed to buy all of the company’s output up to a maximum of 3,570 units of product tlx and 1,610 units of product mtv. selling prices and variable costs per unit to produce the products follow. product tlx product mtv selling price per unit $ 11.50 $ 6.90 variable costs per unit 3.45 4.14 determine the company's most profitable sales mix and the contribution margin that results from that sales mix.