Calculating the Direct Materials Mix Variance
Mangia Pizza Company makes frozen pizzas that are sold through grocery stores. Mangia developed the following standard mix for spreading on premade pizza shells to produce 16 giant-size sausage pizzas.
Direct Material | Mix | Mix Proportion | SP | Standard Cost |
Tomato sauce | 9.60 lbs | 0.320 | $1.40 | $13.44 |
Cheese | 11.25 | 0.375 | 2.90 | 32.63 |
Sausage | 9.15 | 0.305 | 2.10 | 19.21 |
Total | 30.00 lbs | $65.28 |
Mangia put a batch of 2,000 pounds of direct materials (enough for 1,067 frozen sausage pizzas) into process. Of the total, 680 pounds were tomato sauce, 860 pounds were cheese, and the remaining 460 pounds were sausage. The actual yield was 780 pizzas.
Required:
1. Calculate the standard mix (SM) in pounds for tomato sauce, for cheese, and for sausage.
SM | ||
Tomato sauce | fill in the blank 1 pounds | |
Cheese | fill in the blank 2 pounds | |
Sausage | fill in the blank 3 pounds |
2. Calculate the mix variance.
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3. Calculate the actual proportion used of tomato sauce, cheese, and sausage.
Actual mix proportion | |
Tomato sauce | fill in the blank 6 % |
Cheese | fill in the blank 7 % |
Sausage | fill in the blank 8 % |
Using the results, would the direction of the mix variance be
favorable or unfavorable?
4. What if of the
total 2,000 pounds of ingredients put into process, 680 pounds were
tomato sauce, 680 pounds were cheese, and 640 pounds were sausage?
How would that affect the mix variance?
The mix variance will be
1)
Standard mix in pounds
Tomato sauce = 2000 * 0.320 = 640 pounds
cheese = 2000*0.375 = 750 pounds
Sausage = 2000* 0.305 = 610 pounds
2)
Mix Variance : (Actual Mix - Std Mix)*Std Rate
Tomato sauce = (680-640)*1.40 = 56 U
cheese = (860 - 750)*2.90 = 319 U
Sausage = (460-610)*2.10 = 315 F
3)
Actual Proportion used:
Tomato sauce = 680/2000 = 34%
Cheese =860/2000 = 43%
Sausage = 460/2000 = 23%
4)
Mix Variance : (Actual Mix - Std Mix)*Std Rate
Tomato sauce = (680-640)*1.40 = 56 U
cheese = (680 - 750)*2.90 = 203 F
Sausage = (640 - 610)*2.10 = 63 U
Total Mix variance = 84 F
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