Standard Costing &
Variance Analysis!
Definitions
• Standard Cost: (CIMA) “Standard cost is the pre-
determined cost based on the technical estimates for
materials, labour and overhead for a selected period of
time for a prescribed set of working conditions.”
• Standard Costing: (CIMA) “the preparation of standard
costs and applying them to measure the variations from
the actual costs and analyzing the causes of variations
with a view to maintain maximum efficiency of the
operations so that any remedial action may be taken
immediately.
Variance Analysis
• Cost Variance: is the difference between the
standard cost and the actual costs.
• Variance Analysis: is the resolution into
constituent parts and the explanation of the
variances.
 Favorable & Unfavorable Variances.
Controllable & Uncontrollable Variances
What all could be
the reasons for the
actual
manufacturing cost
or the sales/profit
to vary from their
standard costs and
price/profit?
Standard Costing & Variance Analysis.PPT
Favorable & Unfavorable Variances
• Favorable variances(F) arise when actual costs
are less than budgeted costs or actual
sales/profit exceed budgeted.
• Un favorable variances(U) arise when actual
costs exceed budgeted or actual sales/profit
are less than budgeted.
Profit
Profit Revenue Costs
Revenue Costs
Actual > Expected
Actual > Expected F
F F
F U
U
Actual < Expected
Actual < Expected U
U U
U F
F
Standard Costs
Benchmarks for
measuring performance.
The expected level
of performance.
Based on carefully
predetermined amounts.
Used for planning labor, material
and overhead requirements.
Standard
Costs are
Setting Standard Costs
Accountants, engineers, personnel administrators, and
production managers combine efforts to set standards
based on experience and expectations.
Standards vs. Budgets
Are standards the same as
budgets?
A standard is the expected
cost for one unit.
A budget is the expected cost
for all units.
The price variance is computed
on the entire quantity
purchased.
The quantity variance is
computed only on the quantity
used.
How will the material price
variance and material usage
be computed if the quantity
purchased is different from
the quantity used?
Material Cost Variance
• Material cost variance arises due to variance in the price of
material or its usage.
• This can be calculated by using the following formula,
• Material Cost Variance = (SQ x SP) – (AQ x AP) ,
• Where,
SQ = Standard quantity for the actual output
SP = Standard price per unit of material
AQ = Actual quantity
AP = Actual price per unit of material
• A positive result implies favorable variance and a negative
result implies unfavorable variance (adverse variance).
Material Price Variance
• Material price variance may arise due to number of reasons like
fluctuations in market prices, error in buying due to wrong
purchasing policy etc,
• This can be calculated by using the following formula,
• Material Price Variance = (SP – AP) x AQ
• Where,
SP = Standard price per unit of material
AQ = Actual quantity
AP = Actual price per unit of material
• A positive result implies favorable variance and a negative result
implies unfavorable variance (adverse variance).
Material usage Variance
• Material Usage variance is the difference between the actual
quantities of raw materials used in production and the
standard quantities that should have been used to produce
the product,
• MUV may arise due to number of reasons like Pilferage of
materials , Wastage , Sub-standard or defective materials etc,
• This can be calculated by using the following formula,
• Material Usage Variance = (SQ – AQ) x SP
Material Mix Variance
• MMV is calculated when a product uses mixture of
different raw materials,
• MMV is that portion of the materials quantity variance,
which is due to the difference between the standard
and actual composition of a mixture.
• It can be represented by the following formula:
• Material mix variance =
• (Standard cost of actual quantity of the standard
mixture – Standard cost of actual quantity of the actual
mixture) or (Revised SQ – AQ) x SP
Practical Problems
1. A furniture company uses sunmica tops for tables.
It provides the following data:
St. Quantity for sunmica per table 4 sq. ft
St. price per sq. ft of sunmica Rs. 5
Actual prod. Of tables 1000
Sunmica actually used 4,300 sq.ft
Actual purchase price per sq. ft Rs. 5.50.
Calculate Material variances.
St. price x St. Quantity 5 x 4000 = 20000
St. price x Actual Quanity 5 x 4300 = 21500
Actual Price
x Actual Quanity 5.5 x 4300 = 23650
Material Cost Variance -3650
Material Usage Variance -1500
Material Price Variance -2150
2. From the following information calculate (i) material cost
variance (ii) material price variance (iii) Material Usage
variance
Standard output 100 units
Standard Material per unit 3 Ibs
Standard price per Ib. Rs. 2
Actual output 80 units
Actual price Rs. 5.50
Actual materials used 250 Ibs
Material Cost Variance 65
Material Usage Variance -60
Material Price Variance 125
3. From the following information calculate (i) material cost
variance (ii) material price variance (iii) Material Usage
variance
Quantity of material purchased 3000 units
Value of material purchased Rs. 9000
St. quantity of raw material req. p.u. 25 units
Standard rate of material unit Rs. 2 per
Opening stock of material Nil
Closing stock of material 500 units
Finished production during the period 80 units
St. price x St. Quantity 2 x 2000 = 4000
St. price x Actual Quanity 2 x 2500 = 5000
Actual Price
x Actual Quanity 3 x 2500 = 7500
Material Cost Variance -3500
Material Usage Variance -1000
Material Price Variance -2500
4. The standard output of the production house has been set
at 1000 pieces per month. However actually 1020 pieces
were produced. Following is the data for actual and
standard production.
Standard Actual Results
Usage 1.5 sq. ft per pad 1.3 sq. ft per pad
Price Rs. 0.15 per sq. ft Rs. 0.18 per sq. ft
Calculate all material variances.
St. price x St. Quantity 0.15 x 1530 = 229.5
St. price x Actual Quanity 0.15 x 1326 = 198.9
Actual Price
x Actual Quanity 0.18 x 1326 = 238.68
Material Cost Variance -9.18
Material Usage Variance 30.6
Material Price Variance -39.8
St. price x St. Quantity 1 x 300000 = 300000
St. price x Actual Quanity 1 x 280000 = 280000
Actual Price
x Actual Quanity 0.9 x 280000 = 252000
Material Cost Variance 48000
Material Usage Variance 20000
Material Price Variance 28000
5. A mfg. concern, which has adopted standard costing, furnishes the
following information:
Standard:
Material for 70 kg. Of finished products 100 kgs.
Price of materials Rs. 1 per kg.
Actual:
Output 210,000 kgs
Material used 280,000 kgs.
Cost of materials Rs. 2,52,000
Calculate all material variances.
Material Mix Variance
• Material Mix Variance
= [Revised St. Qty – Actual Qty] x St. Price
Rev. St. Qty = St. Qty of 1 Mat. x Actual Total
Standard Total
From the following information regarding a standard product,
compute 1. Mix 2. Price 3. Usage Variance:
Raw Material Standard Actual
X 40 units @ Rs. 50 p.u. 50 units @ Rs. 50 p.u.
Y 60 units @ Rs. 40 p.u. 60 units @ Rs. 45 p.u.
Total 100 units 110 units
Rev.ST. Qty
St. PriceSt. QtyAct.Price Act. Qty
Revised St. Qty X 40/100 x 110 = units 44 50 40 50 50
Revised St. Qty Y 60/100 x 110 = units 66 40 60 45 60
Material Mix Variance
For X -300
For Y 240 -60 MMV
Material Usage Variance
For X -500
For Y 0 -500 MUV
Material Price Variance
For X 0
For Y -300 -300 MPV
From the following information regarding a standard product,
compute 1. Mix 2. Price 3. Usage Variance:
Material
Standard Actual
Qty. Rs. p.u. Total Qty
Unit
Price Total
A 4 1.00 4.00 2 3.50 7.00
B 2 2.00 4.00 1 2.00 2.00
C 2 4.00 8.00 3 3.00 9.00
Total 8 7.00 16.00 6.00 8.50 18.00
St. Price St. Qty Act.Price Act. Qty
Revised St. Qty A 4/8*6= units 3.00 1.00 4 3.50 2
Revised St. Qty B 2/8*6= units 1.50 2.00 2 2.00 1
Revised St. Qty C 2/8*6= units 1.50 4.00 2 3.00 3
Material Mix Variance
For A 1
For B 1 -4 MMV
For C -6
Material Usage Variance
For A 2
For B 2 0 MUV
For C -4
Material Price Variance
For A -5
For B 0 -2 MPV
For C 3
Material variances
• Labour Cost Variance SH*SR – AH*AR
• Labour Usage/Efficie. Var (SH-AHactual)*SR
• Labour Rate Variance (SR-AR)* AH
• Idle time Variance SR*Idle time
Labour Variances
Practice Problem
A firm gives you the following data:
Standard time per unit 2.5 hours
Actual hours worked 2,000 hours
Standard rate of pay Rs. 2 per hour
25 % of the actual hours has been lost as idle time.
Actual output 1,000 units
Actual wages Rs. 4,500
Calculate all labour variances.
St. Rate 2 LUV 2000F
St. Hrs 2500 LPV -500U
Actual Rate 2.25 ITV 1000F
Actual Hrs 2000 LCV 500F
Idle time 500
Practice Problems
Compute the Labour variances from the
information given below:
Standard time 3 hours per unit
Standard rate of wages Rs. 6 per hour
Actual production 700 units
Actual time taken 2000 hours
Actual Wages Rs. 14000
Idle time 50 hours
St. Rate 6 LUV 900F
St. Hrs 2100 LPV -2000U
Actual Rate 7 LCV -1400U
Actual Hrs 2000 IDV 300
Idle time 50
Labor Efficiency Variance- Causes
Unfavorable
Efficiency
Variance
Poorly
trained
workers
Poor
quality
materials
Poorly
maintained
equipment
Poor
supervision
of workers
Responsibility for Labor Variances
I am not responsible for
the unfavorable labor
efficiency variance!
You purchased cheap
material, so it took more
time to process it.
You used too much
time because of poorly
trained workers and
poor supervision.
Overhead Variances
• Overhead variances arise due to the difference
between actual overheads and absorbed
overheads. The estimate of budget of the
overheads is to be divided into fixed and variable
elements. i.e.
1.Variable overhead variances.
– Variable overhead budget or expenditure variance, and
– Variable overhead efficiency variance.
2.Fixed overhead variances.
Formulas
1. Variable overhead variances.
(Standard variable o/hfor actual prodn. – Actual variable o/h)
2. Variable overhead budget or expenditure variance,
(Budgeted variable overhead for actual hours – Actual
variable overhead) i.e. AH*BR – Actual Cost
3. Variable overhead efficiency variance.
Standard variable overhead rate per hour [Std. hours for
actual output – Actual hours] i.e. (SH-AH) *SR
4. Fixed Overhead Variance
Budgeted FO- AFO
Sales Variances
• Sales Margin Price Margin = (AP-BP)*AQ
• Sales Margin Volume variance = (AQ-BQ)*BC
• Total Sales Margin variance = AQ*AC – BQ*BC

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Standard Costing & Variance Analysis.PPT

  • 2. Definitions • Standard Cost: (CIMA) “Standard cost is the pre- determined cost based on the technical estimates for materials, labour and overhead for a selected period of time for a prescribed set of working conditions.” • Standard Costing: (CIMA) “the preparation of standard costs and applying them to measure the variations from the actual costs and analyzing the causes of variations with a view to maintain maximum efficiency of the operations so that any remedial action may be taken immediately.
  • 3. Variance Analysis • Cost Variance: is the difference between the standard cost and the actual costs. • Variance Analysis: is the resolution into constituent parts and the explanation of the variances.  Favorable & Unfavorable Variances. Controllable & Uncontrollable Variances
  • 4. What all could be the reasons for the actual manufacturing cost or the sales/profit to vary from their standard costs and price/profit?
  • 6. Favorable & Unfavorable Variances • Favorable variances(F) arise when actual costs are less than budgeted costs or actual sales/profit exceed budgeted. • Un favorable variances(U) arise when actual costs exceed budgeted or actual sales/profit are less than budgeted. Profit Profit Revenue Costs Revenue Costs Actual > Expected Actual > Expected F F F F U U Actual < Expected Actual < Expected U U U U F F
  • 7. Standard Costs Benchmarks for measuring performance. The expected level of performance. Based on carefully predetermined amounts. Used for planning labor, material and overhead requirements. Standard Costs are
  • 8. Setting Standard Costs Accountants, engineers, personnel administrators, and production managers combine efforts to set standards based on experience and expectations.
  • 9. Standards vs. Budgets Are standards the same as budgets? A standard is the expected cost for one unit. A budget is the expected cost for all units.
  • 10. The price variance is computed on the entire quantity purchased. The quantity variance is computed only on the quantity used. How will the material price variance and material usage be computed if the quantity purchased is different from the quantity used?
  • 11. Material Cost Variance • Material cost variance arises due to variance in the price of material or its usage. • This can be calculated by using the following formula, • Material Cost Variance = (SQ x SP) – (AQ x AP) , • Where, SQ = Standard quantity for the actual output SP = Standard price per unit of material AQ = Actual quantity AP = Actual price per unit of material • A positive result implies favorable variance and a negative result implies unfavorable variance (adverse variance).
  • 12. Material Price Variance • Material price variance may arise due to number of reasons like fluctuations in market prices, error in buying due to wrong purchasing policy etc, • This can be calculated by using the following formula, • Material Price Variance = (SP – AP) x AQ • Where, SP = Standard price per unit of material AQ = Actual quantity AP = Actual price per unit of material • A positive result implies favorable variance and a negative result implies unfavorable variance (adverse variance).
  • 13. Material usage Variance • Material Usage variance is the difference between the actual quantities of raw materials used in production and the standard quantities that should have been used to produce the product, • MUV may arise due to number of reasons like Pilferage of materials , Wastage , Sub-standard or defective materials etc, • This can be calculated by using the following formula, • Material Usage Variance = (SQ – AQ) x SP
  • 14. Material Mix Variance • MMV is calculated when a product uses mixture of different raw materials, • MMV is that portion of the materials quantity variance, which is due to the difference between the standard and actual composition of a mixture. • It can be represented by the following formula: • Material mix variance = • (Standard cost of actual quantity of the standard mixture – Standard cost of actual quantity of the actual mixture) or (Revised SQ – AQ) x SP
  • 15. Practical Problems 1. A furniture company uses sunmica tops for tables. It provides the following data: St. Quantity for sunmica per table 4 sq. ft St. price per sq. ft of sunmica Rs. 5 Actual prod. Of tables 1000 Sunmica actually used 4,300 sq.ft Actual purchase price per sq. ft Rs. 5.50. Calculate Material variances.
  • 16. St. price x St. Quantity 5 x 4000 = 20000 St. price x Actual Quanity 5 x 4300 = 21500 Actual Price x Actual Quanity 5.5 x 4300 = 23650 Material Cost Variance -3650 Material Usage Variance -1500 Material Price Variance -2150
  • 17. 2. From the following information calculate (i) material cost variance (ii) material price variance (iii) Material Usage variance Standard output 100 units Standard Material per unit 3 Ibs Standard price per Ib. Rs. 2 Actual output 80 units Actual price Rs. 5.50 Actual materials used 250 Ibs Material Cost Variance 65 Material Usage Variance -60 Material Price Variance 125
  • 18. 3. From the following information calculate (i) material cost variance (ii) material price variance (iii) Material Usage variance Quantity of material purchased 3000 units Value of material purchased Rs. 9000 St. quantity of raw material req. p.u. 25 units Standard rate of material unit Rs. 2 per Opening stock of material Nil Closing stock of material 500 units Finished production during the period 80 units St. price x St. Quantity 2 x 2000 = 4000 St. price x Actual Quanity 2 x 2500 = 5000 Actual Price x Actual Quanity 3 x 2500 = 7500 Material Cost Variance -3500 Material Usage Variance -1000 Material Price Variance -2500
  • 19. 4. The standard output of the production house has been set at 1000 pieces per month. However actually 1020 pieces were produced. Following is the data for actual and standard production. Standard Actual Results Usage 1.5 sq. ft per pad 1.3 sq. ft per pad Price Rs. 0.15 per sq. ft Rs. 0.18 per sq. ft Calculate all material variances. St. price x St. Quantity 0.15 x 1530 = 229.5 St. price x Actual Quanity 0.15 x 1326 = 198.9 Actual Price x Actual Quanity 0.18 x 1326 = 238.68 Material Cost Variance -9.18 Material Usage Variance 30.6 Material Price Variance -39.8
  • 20. St. price x St. Quantity 1 x 300000 = 300000 St. price x Actual Quanity 1 x 280000 = 280000 Actual Price x Actual Quanity 0.9 x 280000 = 252000 Material Cost Variance 48000 Material Usage Variance 20000 Material Price Variance 28000 5. A mfg. concern, which has adopted standard costing, furnishes the following information: Standard: Material for 70 kg. Of finished products 100 kgs. Price of materials Rs. 1 per kg. Actual: Output 210,000 kgs Material used 280,000 kgs. Cost of materials Rs. 2,52,000 Calculate all material variances.
  • 21. Material Mix Variance • Material Mix Variance = [Revised St. Qty – Actual Qty] x St. Price Rev. St. Qty = St. Qty of 1 Mat. x Actual Total Standard Total
  • 22. From the following information regarding a standard product, compute 1. Mix 2. Price 3. Usage Variance: Raw Material Standard Actual X 40 units @ Rs. 50 p.u. 50 units @ Rs. 50 p.u. Y 60 units @ Rs. 40 p.u. 60 units @ Rs. 45 p.u. Total 100 units 110 units Rev.ST. Qty St. PriceSt. QtyAct.Price Act. Qty Revised St. Qty X 40/100 x 110 = units 44 50 40 50 50 Revised St. Qty Y 60/100 x 110 = units 66 40 60 45 60 Material Mix Variance For X -300 For Y 240 -60 MMV Material Usage Variance For X -500 For Y 0 -500 MUV Material Price Variance For X 0 For Y -300 -300 MPV
  • 23. From the following information regarding a standard product, compute 1. Mix 2. Price 3. Usage Variance: Material Standard Actual Qty. Rs. p.u. Total Qty Unit Price Total A 4 1.00 4.00 2 3.50 7.00 B 2 2.00 4.00 1 2.00 2.00 C 2 4.00 8.00 3 3.00 9.00 Total 8 7.00 16.00 6.00 8.50 18.00 St. Price St. Qty Act.Price Act. Qty Revised St. Qty A 4/8*6= units 3.00 1.00 4 3.50 2 Revised St. Qty B 2/8*6= units 1.50 2.00 2 2.00 1 Revised St. Qty C 2/8*6= units 1.50 4.00 2 3.00 3 Material Mix Variance For A 1 For B 1 -4 MMV For C -6 Material Usage Variance For A 2 For B 2 0 MUV For C -4 Material Price Variance For A -5 For B 0 -2 MPV For C 3
  • 24. Material variances • Labour Cost Variance SH*SR – AH*AR • Labour Usage/Efficie. Var (SH-AHactual)*SR • Labour Rate Variance (SR-AR)* AH • Idle time Variance SR*Idle time Labour Variances
  • 25. Practice Problem A firm gives you the following data: Standard time per unit 2.5 hours Actual hours worked 2,000 hours Standard rate of pay Rs. 2 per hour 25 % of the actual hours has been lost as idle time. Actual output 1,000 units Actual wages Rs. 4,500 Calculate all labour variances. St. Rate 2 LUV 2000F St. Hrs 2500 LPV -500U Actual Rate 2.25 ITV 1000F Actual Hrs 2000 LCV 500F Idle time 500
  • 26. Practice Problems Compute the Labour variances from the information given below: Standard time 3 hours per unit Standard rate of wages Rs. 6 per hour Actual production 700 units Actual time taken 2000 hours Actual Wages Rs. 14000 Idle time 50 hours St. Rate 6 LUV 900F St. Hrs 2100 LPV -2000U Actual Rate 7 LCV -1400U Actual Hrs 2000 IDV 300 Idle time 50
  • 27. Labor Efficiency Variance- Causes Unfavorable Efficiency Variance Poorly trained workers Poor quality materials Poorly maintained equipment Poor supervision of workers
  • 28. Responsibility for Labor Variances I am not responsible for the unfavorable labor efficiency variance! You purchased cheap material, so it took more time to process it. You used too much time because of poorly trained workers and poor supervision.
  • 29. Overhead Variances • Overhead variances arise due to the difference between actual overheads and absorbed overheads. The estimate of budget of the overheads is to be divided into fixed and variable elements. i.e. 1.Variable overhead variances. – Variable overhead budget or expenditure variance, and – Variable overhead efficiency variance. 2.Fixed overhead variances.
  • 30. Formulas 1. Variable overhead variances. (Standard variable o/hfor actual prodn. – Actual variable o/h) 2. Variable overhead budget or expenditure variance, (Budgeted variable overhead for actual hours – Actual variable overhead) i.e. AH*BR – Actual Cost 3. Variable overhead efficiency variance. Standard variable overhead rate per hour [Std. hours for actual output – Actual hours] i.e. (SH-AH) *SR 4. Fixed Overhead Variance Budgeted FO- AFO
  • 31. Sales Variances • Sales Margin Price Margin = (AP-BP)*AQ • Sales Margin Volume variance = (AQ-BQ)*BC • Total Sales Margin variance = AQ*AC – BQ*BC