Rustafson Corporation is a diversified manufacturer of consumer goods. The company's activity-based costing system has the following seven activity cost pools: Activity Cost Pool Estimated Overhead Cost Expected Activity
Labor-related $16,800 2,000 direct labor-hours
Machine-related $16,000 8,000 machine-hours
Machine setups $30,400 800 setups
Production orders $6,600 200 orders
Product testing $12,000 500 tests
Packaging $51,000 3,400 packages
General factory $55,600 2,000 direct labor-hours
1. Compute the activity rate for each activity cost pool.
2. Compute the company's pre-determined overhead rate, assuming that the company uses a single plantwide pre-determined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours.

Price and efficiency variances, journal entries. the schuyler corporation manufactures lamps. it has set up the following standards per finished unit for direct materials and direct manufacturing labor: direct materials: 10 lb. at $4.50 per lb. $45.00 direct manufacturing labor: 0.5 hour at $30 per hour 15.00 the number of finished units budgeted for january 2017 was 10,000; 9,850 units were actually produced. actual results in january 2017 were as follows: direct materials: 98,055 lb. used direct manufacturing labor: 4,900 hours $154,350 assume that there was no beginning inventory of either direct materials or finished units. during the month, materials purchased amounted to 100,000 lb., at a total cost of $465,000. input price variances are isolated upon purchase. input-efficiency variances are isolated at the time of usage. 1. compute the january 2017 price and efficiency variances of direct materials and direct manufacturing labor. 2. prepare journal entries to record the variances in requirement 1. 3. comment on the january 2017 price and efficiency variances of schuyler corporation. 4. why might schuyler calculate direct materials price variances and direct materials efficiency variances with reference to different points in time

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