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Standard Costs – Overview
1. What are standard Costs. 2. Why do we set standard costs? 3. How do we set the standards? 4. Calculating Variances: DM and DL
- Disaggregating variances into price and volume.
- Difference between labor and direct materials.
- How do we use variances in evaluating performance?
5.
Calculating Overhead variances.
6.
The incentives created when Standard cost systems are implemented
Standard Costs
What are standard Costs?
Standard costs are the expected costs of manufacturing the product.
Standard Direct Labor Costs = Expected wage rate X Expected
number of hours
Standard Direct Materials cost = Expected cost of raw materials X
Expected number of units of raw material.
Standard overhead costs = Expected fixed OH + Expected Variable
Overhead X Expected number of units to be produced.
Standard Costs
What is a standard Cost system? A standard cost system is a method of setting cost targets and evaluating performance. Targets or expected costs are set based on a variety of criteria, and actual performance relative to expected targets is measured. Significant differences between expectations and actual results are investigated. Consistent with the themes developed throughout this class, standard cost systems are a means of helping managers with decision making and control.
Standard Costs
Target Costing 1. The market place determines the selling price of the future product 2. The company determines the profit margin they desire to achieve on this product. 3. The difference between the selling price and the profit margin is the target cost
Standard Costs
Why use a standard cost system? 1. Standards are important for decision making - How we produce our product. - How we price our product. - Contract billing 2. Monitor manufacturing - Large variances may indicative of problems in production. 3. Performance measurement - Deviations between actual and standards are often used as measures of a manager’s performance
- Who sets the standard?
Standard Costs
How do we set the standards? Theoretically the standard should be the expected cost of producing the product. General practices: 1. Prior years performance 2. Expected future performance under normal operating conditions. 3. Optimistic (Motivator)
Standard Costs
Important considerations in setting standards: 1. Why are senior managers using standards?
- Pricing
- Performance measurement
- Production decisions
2. What happens if managers fail to meet the standards? 3. Standards are supposed to represent the opportunity cost of production.
Standard Costs
Consider the following information on Beer manufacturing:
Expected DM and DL for producing 1000 gallons of beer Standard Quantity
Standard Price
Total
Wheat
100 lbs
$50.00 per pound
5000
Hops
200 lbs
$50.00 per pound
10000
Barley
200 lbs
$50.00 per pound
10000
Direct Labor
500 hours
$20.00 per hour
10000
Raw Materials:
Total
35,000
Standard Costs
Actual results associated with the purchase of 1000 gallons of beer Quantity Purchased
Quantity used in Production
Materials and labor price
Total
Wheat
100 lbs
100 lbs
$55.00 per pound
5500
Hops
300 lbs
150 lbs
$50.00 per pound
7500
Barley
500 lbs
250 lbs
$40.00 per pound
10000
550 hours
$22.00 per hour 12100
Raw Materials:
Direct Labor Total
35100
Standard Costs
Raw Material Price Variance:
Raw Materials
Actual price
Standard Price
Quantity Variance Purchased
Total Variance
Wheat
?
?
?
? lbs
?
Hops
?
?
?
? lbs
?
Barley
?
?
?
? lbs
?
Standard Costs
Raw Material Quantity Variance:
Raw Materials
Quantity Used
Standard Quantity
Variance
Standard Price
Total Variance
Wheat
? lbs
? lbs
?
?
?
Hops
? lbs
? lbs
?
?
?
Barley
? lbs
? lbs
?
?
?
Standard Costs
What do we do with the raw materials price variance? Who do we hold responsible?
What do we do with the raw materials
quantity variance?
Who do we hold responsible?
Standard Costs
Direct Labor Wage Variance:
Direct Labor
Actual price
Standard Price
Actual Variance Hours
Total Variance
22.00
20.00
2.00
$1100.00
550
There is a $1100 unfavorable wage variance
Standard Costs
Direct Labor Efficiency Variance:
Direct Labor
Actual Hours
Standard Hours
Standard Variance rate
Total Variance
550
500
50
$1000.00
20
There is a $1000 unfavorable Efficiency variance
Arrow Industries (problem 12-3)
See the exercise “Arrow Industries”: Problem 12-3 in Zimmerman, Jerold L. Accounting for Decision Making and Control (4th Edition). McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2002, pp 624-5.
Howard Binding (Problem 12-16)
See the exercise “Howard Binding”: Problem 12-16 in Zimmerman, Jerold L. Accounting for Decision Making and Control (4th Edition). McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2002, pp 630.
Standard Costs
There are three types of overhead variances that are commonly computed in standard cost systems. Before we describe each of these variances we need to do a brief review on overhead. 1. Overhead consists of both fixed costs and variable costs. 2. Overhead is allocated to the product using an activity base.
Thus overhead variances can occur for three reasons 1. the activity base estimate is different than the actual activity base. 2. The amount spent for fixed overhead differs from the standard. 3. The amount spent on variable overhead (the rate per unit) differs from the standard.
Standard Costs
Overhead spending variance This variance is designed to measure how much overhead was actually incurred compared to the overhead that should have been incurred at the actual volume for the activity base. Spending variance = Actual overhead – budgeted fixed costs – budgeted variable overhead allocation rate * actual activity base.
Standard Costs
Overhead efficiency variance This variance is a measure of the effect of the difference in the amount of an activity base incurred compared to the expected amount of the activity base. Using additional machine hours or direct labor hours causes additional variable overhead Efficiency variance = Variable overhead allocation rate * ( actual activity base – budgeted activity base)
Western Sugar (Problem 13-9)
See the exercise “Western Sugar”: Problem 13-9 in Zimmerman, Jerold L. Accounting for Decision Making and Control (4th Edition). McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2002, pp 660-1.
Standard Costs
Overhead volume variance The overhead volume variance measures the cost or benefits of using less or more than expected capacity.
If budgeted volume = actual volume, then you have derived no extra benefits or costs associated with capacity. When budgeted volume is less than expected volume, then the fixed costs associated with providing capacity are greater than expectations
Standard Costs
When standards are used to measure performance, then the manager has an incentive to insure production costs come in below standards. Consider the following good and bad incentives: 1. Direct Material Price standards create the incentive to purchase materials in large volume to get price discounts. 2. Direct Material Price standards create the incentive to reduce the quality of the material purchased. 3. Standards create the incentive for cross monitoring. When managers are held responsible for costs that are outside of their control, they will monitor other managers to ensure they meet standards. 4. Managers also have the incentive to control costs so long as they do not exceed the standard. No incentive to reduce costs below standard.
Standard Costs
What controls can you implement to discourage the harmful incentives and encourage the productive incentives? Just-in-time inventory System of Quality Control Engineering specifications Controllability of Costs Non-linear reward system for cost reduction.
Activity Based Costing
How do we use Activity Based Costing? 1. Costs are accumulated in activity centers (a.k.a. Cost Centers such as order processing or special components) 2. Managers select an activity base for the center to apply the cost to the product. - Multiple cost drivers in the firm - Use non-financial measures to reduce the tax on production
activities.
- Four Basic types of Cost Drivers: 1. Unit level 2. Batch Level 3. Product Level 4. Production Sustaining Costs 3. Costs are allocated to the product as the product passes through the activity center.
Activity Based Costing
What are the benefits of using Activity Based Costing Systems? 1. More costs are traced to the product. 2. Activity Based Costing Requires managers to obtain a better understanding of: -
How costs are consumed by individual products.
The different activities that produce products.
The indirect costs associated with these activities.
How indirect costs relate to cost drivers.
3. Product costs are more accurate.
Proponents argue that having more accurate costs will help in decision making
Activity Based Costing Key Points regarding Activity Based Costing: 1. Useful for developing a more accurate measure of the cost of multiple products with different levels of manufacturing sophistication and different volumes of production. 2. Managers must recognize that overhead varies by factors other than volume of production for the product. 3. The managers ability to successfully identify these cost drivers will ultimately determine the usefulness of an ABC costing system.
Activity Based Costing
What are the costs of implementing an Activity Based Cost system?
1. Updating the accounting system and maintaining an ABC system requires additional time and money. 2. Managers select cost drivers in their activity centers. There is a tradeoff between decision making and control. 3. While ABC systems may more accurately measure costs, they ignore the benefits of a multi-product production strategy. 4. Generally ABC system demonstrate that low volume products are more costly to produce than high volume products. This is a very costly method to derive this result.
