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Quilcene Oysteria farms and sells oysters in the Pacific Northwest. The company harvested and sold 7,600 pounds of oysters in August. The company's flexible budget for August appears below: The actual results for August appear below: Required: Calculate the company's revenue and spending variances for August. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive values.) Puget Sound Divers is a company that provides diving services such as underwater ship repairs to clients in the Puget Sound area The company's planning budget for May appears below: During May, the company's actual activity was 340 diving-hours. Required: Prepare a flexible budget for May. (Round your answers to the nearest whole dollar)) Logistics Solutions provides order fulfillment services for dot.com merchants. The company maintains warehouses that stock items carried by its dot.com clients. When a client receives an order from a customer, the order is forwarded to Logistics Solutions, which pulls the item from storage, packs it, and ships it to the customer. The company uses a predetermined variable overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. In the most recent month, 195,000 items were shipped to customers using 8,600 direct labor-hours. The company incurred a total of $30,530 in variable overhead costs. According to the company's standards, 0.04 direct labor-hours are required to fulfill an order for one item and the variable overhead rate is $3.60 per direct labor-hour. Required: 1. What is the standard labor-hours allowed (SH) to ship 195,000 items to customers? 2. What is the standard variable overhead cost allowed (SH*SR) to ship 195,000 items to customers? 3. What is the variable overhead spending variance? 4. What is the variable overhead rate variance and the variable overhead efficiency variance? (For requirements 3 and 4 , indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive values. Do not round intermediate calculations.)

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