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Saskatewan Can Company manufactures recyclable soft-drink cans. A unit of production is a case of 12 dozen cans. The following standards have been set by the production-engineering staff and the controller. Direct Labor: Direct Material: Quantity, 0.29 hour Quantity, 8 kilograms Rate, $14.50 per hour Price, $0.68 per kilogram Actual material purchases amounted to 412,800 kilograms at $0.700 per kilogram. Actual costs incurred in the production of 48,000 units were as follows: Direct labor: $228,096 for 15,360 hours Direct material: $273,840 for 391,200 kilograms Required: 1. Use the variance formulas to compute the direct-material price and quantity variances, the direct-material purchase price variance, and the direct-labor rate and efficiency variances. Indicate whether each variance is favorable or unfavorable. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "Favorable" or "Unfavorable". Select "None" and enter "0" for no effect (i.e., zero variance).)

Exercise 10-22 Straightforward Computation of Variances (LO 10-1, 10-3) Saskatewan Can Company manufactures recyclable soft-drink cans. A unit of production is a case of 12 dozen cans. The following standards have been set by the production-engineering staff and the controller. Actual material purchases amounted to 412,800 kilograms at $0.700 per kilogram. Actual costs incurred in the production of 48,000 units were as follows: Required: 1. Use the variance formulas to compute the direct-material price and quantity variances, the direct-material purchase price variance, and the direct-labor rate and efficiency variances. Indicate whether each variance is favorable or unfavorable. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "Favorable" or "Unfavorable". Select "None" and enter "O" for no effect (i.e., zero variance).)

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