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"Wonderful! Not only did our salespeople do a good job inmeeting the sales budget this year, but our production people did agood job in controlling costs as well,” said Kim Clark, presidentof Martell Company. “Our $26,250 overall manufacturing costvariance is only 2.5% of the $1,050,000 standard cost of productsmade during the year. That's well within the 3% parameter set bymanagement for acceptable variances. It looks like everyone will bein line for a bonus this year."

The company produces and sells a single product. The standardcost card for the product follows:

Inputs(1)
Standard
Quantity
or Hours
(2)
Standard
Price
or Rate
Standard
Cost
(1) × (2)
Direct materials4.00 feet$3.50per foot$14.00
Direct labor1.5 hours$12per hour18.00
Variable overhead1.5 hours$2.00per hour3.00
Fixed overhead1.5 hours$6.00per hour9.00
Total standard cost per unit$44.00

The following additional information is available for the yearjust completed:

  1. The company manufactured 20,000 units of product during theyear.
  2. A total of 78,000 feet of material was purchased during theyear at a cost of $3.75 per foot. All of this material was used tomanufacture the 20,000 units produced. There were no beginning orending inventories for the year.
  3. The company worked 32,500 direct labor-hours during the year ata direct labor cost of $11.80 per hour.
  4. Overhead is applied to products on the basis of standard directlabor-hours. Data relating to manufacturing overhead costsfollow:
Denominator activity level (direct labor-hours)25,000
Budgeted fixed overhead costs$150,000
Actual variable overhead costs incurred$68,250
Actual fixed overhead costs incurred$148,000

Required:

1. Compute the materials price and quantity variances for theyear.

2. Compute the labor rate and efficiency variances for theyear.

3. For manufacturing overhead compute:

a. The variable overhead rate and efficiency variances for theyear.

b. The fixed overhead budget and volume variances for theyear.

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1Material Price VarianceSPAPAQ 19500UMaterial Quantity VarianceSQAQSP 7000F2Labor Rate VarianceSRARAH 6500FLabor    See Answer
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