Everjoice Company Makes Clocks

question 10

Essay

Everjoice Company makes clocks. The budgeted fixed overhead costs for 2012 total $720,000. The company uses direct labour-hours for fixed overhead allocation and anticipates 240,000 hours during the year for 480,000 units. An equal number of units are budgeted for each month.
During June, 42,000 clocks were produced and $63,000 were spent on fixed overhead.
Required:
a. Determine the fixed overhead rate for 2012 based on units of input.
b. Determine the fixed overhead static-budget variance for June.
c. Determine the production-volume overhead variance for June.

Understand the concept of producer surplus and how market conditions influence it.

Analyze the effects of shifts in supply and demand on producer surplus.

Evaluate the impact of cost changes on consumer and producer surpluses.

Calculate producer surplus given cost and market price information.

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Definitions:

Descriptive Statistics

Statistics that describe and summarize the data for a sample.

Descriptive Statistics

Statistical methods that summarize and describe the features of a dataset through metrics such as mean, median, mode, and standard deviation, without drawing conclusions about the population from which the sample was drawn.

Inferential Statistics

Statistical methods that allow researchers to make predictions or inferences about a population based on a sample.

Large Sample Sizes

The use of a substantial number of participants or observations in research to increase the validity and reliability of the findings.