Ben Company Planned to Produce 12,000 Units

question 110

Multiple Choice

Ben Company planned to produce 12,000 units.This level of activities required 20 set-ups at a cost of $18,000 plus $500 per set-up.Actual sales were 10,000 units, requiring 15 set-ups and 12,000 machine hours.Actual set-up cost was $26,000._____ is the static budget-variance for set-ups.

• A)$2,500 favorable
• B)$2,500 unfavorable
• C)$2,000 favorable
• D)$2,000 unfavorable

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Definitions:

Geons

Basic three-dimensional shapes that are the building blocks for recognizing objects, according to the recognition-by-components theory.

Occipital Cortex

The part of the brain located at the back of the head, crucial for processing visual information.

Temporal Cortex

Part of the cerebral cortex involved in processing auditory information and encoding memory.

Unconscious Inference

A process postulated by Hermann von Helmholtz to explain certain perceptual phenomena such as size constancy. For example, an object is perceived to be at a certain distance and this is unconsciously taken into account in assessing its retinal image size, with the result that size constancy is maintained.