Question

Bowie Sporting Goods manufactures sleeping bags. The manufacturing standards per sleeping bag, based on 5,000 sleeping bags per month, are as follows: Direct material of 4.00 yards at $6.00 per yard Direct labor of 2.50 hours at $19.00 per hour Overhead applied per sleeping bag at $18.00 In the month of April, the company actually produced 4,900 sleeping bags using 25,100 yards of material at a cost of $5.70 per yard. The labor used was 11,500 hours at an average rate of $20.50 per hour. The actual overhead spending was $96,200. Determine the materials price variance and round to the nearest whole dollar. Enter a favorable variance as a negative number. Enter an unfavorable variance as a positive number

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