Gentile Corporation Makes a Product with the Following Standard Costs

question 161

Multiple Choice

Gentile Corporation makes a product with the following standard costs: The company produced 6,000 units in May using 36,970 kilos of direct material and 4,340 direct labor-hours. During the month, the company purchased 40,400 kilos of the direct material at $4.70 per kilo. The actual direct labor rate was $13.70 per hour and the actual variable overhead rate was $2.70 per hour.

The company applies variable overhead on the basis of direct labor-hours. The direct materials purchases variance is computed when the materials are purchased.

-The variable overhead efficiency variance for May is:

• A)$1,380 F
• B)$1,242 U
• C)$1,242 F
• D)$1,380 U

Grasp the concept of autarky, its definitions, and implications for a country's economy.

Identify and differentiate between goods and services traded internationally.

Apply the concept of comparative and absolute advantages in international trade and their roles in determining trade patterns.

Understand the models explaining international trade, such as Ricardian and Heckscher-Ohlin models, and their assumptions.

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent pieces of information available to estimate another piece of information or the parameter in a model.

Number

An arithmetic value that represents a particular quantity and is used in counting and making calculations.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution or to a mechanism, minus the number of parameters that constrain these values.

Student t Distribution

A probability distribution that is used to estimate population parameters when the sample size is small and the population variance is unknown.