Bowling Inc. makes a popular bowling ball. The company wants to develop budgets (standards) for...

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Bowling Inc. makes a popular bowling ball. The company wants to develop budgets (standards) for material, labour, and variable overhead. The budgeted (standard) cost for one bowling ball would be:

Quantity of Hours
Standard Price or Rat Standard Cost
Direct materials 3.5 $6 21
Direct labor 2 $18 an hour 36
Variable overhead 2 $4 an hour 8
Total standard cost per bowling ball $65

The following data are for last months production:

Number of bowling balls completed. 5,000 units

Cost of material purchased (20,000 kilos $5.40 per kilo)...... $108,000

Kilos of material used ..................... 20,000 kilos

Using the data above, compute the direct material price and efficiency variances for the bowling balls

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