Question

For the week of June 6, Melvin Mince, the manager of Melvins Hotel in North western Illinois, budgeted 600 hours for room attendants to clean rooms. This budget was based on a work standard of cleaning one room every 36 mins. The rooms attendants actually worked 660 hours cleaning 1,050 rooms. The budgeted wage rate for room attendants is $3.40 per hour. The wages paid to room attendant totaled $2,178.00.
1. What is the amount of the budget variance?
2. What is the amount of the volume variance?
3. What is the amount of the efficiency variance?
4. What is the amount of the rate variance?

Answer 1

Answer: See explanation

Explanation:

From the information given,

Budgeted hours = 660

Budgeted rate per hour = 3.4

Budgeted rooms to clean = (600 × 60)/36 = 36000/36 = 1000

1. What is the amount of the budget variance?

This will be:

= (Actual room - Budgeted room) × Standard rate

= (1050 - 1000) × 3.4

= 50 × 3.4

= 170 favorable

2. What is the amount of the volume variance?

This will be:

= Standard cost - Actual labor cost

= (630 × 3.4) - (660 × 3.3)

= 2142 - 2178

= 36 Unfavorable

3. What is the amount of the efficiency variance?

This will be:

= 3.4 × (630 - 660)

= 3.4 × (-30)

= 10.20 Unfavorable

4. What is the amount of the rate variance?

This will be:

= Actual time ( Standard rate - Actual rate)

= 660 × (3.4 - 3.3)

= 660 × 1

= 660 Favorable