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Logistics Solutions provides order fulfillment services for dot.com merchants. The company maintains warehouses that stock items carried by its dot.com 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, 185,000 items were shipped to customers using 8,000 direct labor-hours. The company incurred a total of $27,600 in variable overhead costs.

According to the company’s standards, 0.04 direct labor-hours are required to fulfill an order for one item and the variable overhead rate is $3.50 per direct labor-hour.

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1. According to the standards, what variable overhead cost should have been incurred to fill the orders for the 185,000 items? How much does this differ from the actual variable overhead cost? (Round labor-hours per item and overhead cost per hour to 2 decimal places.)

2. Break down the difference computed in (1) above into a variable overhead rate variance and a variable overhead efficiency variance. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance).)

Number of items shipped .......... .......... Standard direct labor-hours per item Total direct labor-hours allowed Standard variable overhead cost per hour Total standard variable overhead cost Actual variable overhead cost incurred Total standard variable overhead cost Total variable overhead variance

Explanation / Answer

Statement showing computations Particulars Amount No of items shipped          185,000.00 Standard labour hour per item                       0.04 Total DL hours allowed               7,400.00 Standard VO cost per hour                       3.50 Total Standard Variable Overhead cost            25,900.00 Actual Variable Overhead Cost            27,600.00 Total Standard Variable Overhead cost            25,900.00 Total Variable overhead Variance            (1,700.00) Particulars Standard Actual Hours Rate amount Hours Rate amount Variable overhead               7,400.00              3.50 25,900.00     8,000.00         3.4500 27,600.00 Variable Overhead Rate variance= (SR-AR)AH Variable Overhead Rate variance= (3.50 - 3.45)8000 Variable Overhead Rate variance= 400 F Variable Overhead efficiency variance = (SH-AH)SR Variable OverheadEV = (7400 - 8000)3.50 Variable OverheadEV = 2,100 U

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