Question

Direct Materials, Direct Labor, and Factory Overhead Cost Variance Analysis

Mackinaw Inc. processes a base chemical into plastic. Standard costs and actual costs for direct materials, direct labor, and factory overhead incurred for the manufacture of 5,200 units of product were as follows:

	Standard Costs		Actual Costs
Direct materials	6,800 lb. at $6.00		6,700 lb. at $5.90
Direct labor	1,300 hrs. at $16.50		1,330 hrs. at $16.80
Factory overhead	Rates per direct labor hr.,
	based on 100% of normal
	capacity of 1,360 direct
	labor hrs.:
		Variable cost, $3.50	$4,500 variable cost
		Fixed cost, $5.50	$7,480 fixed cost

Each unit requires 0.25 hour of direct labor.

Required:

a. Determine the direct materials price variance, direct materials quantity variance, and total direct materials cost variance. Enter a favorable variance as a negative number using a minus sign and an unfavorable variance as a positive number.

Direct materials price variance	$
Direct materials quantity variance
Total direct materials cost variance	$

b. Determine the direct labor rate variance, direct labor time variance, and total direct labor cost variance. Enter a favorable variance as a negative number using a minus sign and an unfavorable variance as a positive number.

Direct labor rate variance	$
Direct labor time variance
Total direct labor cost variance	$

c. Determine variable factory overhead controllable variance, the fixed factory overhead volume variance, and total factory overhead cost variance. Enter a favorable variance as a negative number using a minus sign and an unfavorable variance as a positive number.

Variable factory overhead controllable variance	$
Fixed factory overhead volume variance
Total factory overhead cost variance	$

Answer 1