Question

Logistics Solutions provides order fulfillment services for dot merchants. The company maintains warehouses that stock items carried by its dot 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, 140,000 items were shipped to customers using 5,300 direct labor-hours. The company incurred a total of $15,900 in variable overhead costs. According to the company’s standards, 0.03 direct labor-hours are required to fulfill an order for one item and the variable overhead rate is $3.05 per direct labor-hour. Required: 1. What is the standard labor-hours allowed (SH) to ship 140,000 items to customers? 2. What is the standard variable overhead cost allowed (SH × SR) to ship 140,000 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?

Answer 1

1. 4,200

2. $12,810

3. -$3,090 Unfavorable

4. a. $265 Favorable

b. -$3,355 Unfavorable

Explanation:

The computation of given question is shown below:-

1. Standard labor-hours

Standard labor-hours = Shipped items × Direct labor-hours

= 140,000 × 0.03

= 4,200

2. Standard variable overhead cost allowed

Standard variable overhead cost allowed = Standard variable Overhead rate per hour × Standard labor-hours

= $3.05 × 4,200

= $12,810

3. Variable overhead spending variance

Variable overhead spending variance = Standard variable overhead for actual output - Actual variable Overhead

= $12,810 - $15,900

= -$3,090 Unfavorable

4. a. Variable overhead rate variance

Variable overhead rate variance = (Actual hours × Standard rate per hour) - Actual variable Overhead

= (5,300 × $3.05) - $15,900

= $16,165 - $15,900

= $265 Favorable

b. Variable overhead efficiency variance

Variable overhead efficiency variance = Standard rate per hour × (Standard hours - Actual hours)

= $3.05 × ( 4,200 - 5,300)

= $3.05 × -$1,100

= -$3,355 Unfavorable