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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, 115,000 items were shipped to customers using 3,800 direct labor-hours. The company incurred a total of $10,450 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 $2.80 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 115,000 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).)

Explanation / Answer

Logistics solution Variance claculation 1 No o items shipped          115,000 F/U Std Direct labor hr/item                 0.04 Std Direct labor hr for Actual no of items        4,600.00 Std Var OH rate/DLH $                 2.80 Total Std var OH applicable      12,880.00 Actual Var OH incurred      10,450.00 Total var OH variance        2,430.00 F Actual direct labor hrs        3,800.00 actual var OH rate/DLH                 2.75 2 Var OH rate variance= Actual OH Hrs(Std OH rate-Actual OH rate) =3800*(2.80-2.75) =            190.00 F Var OH effciency Var = Std Var OH rate ( Std Hrs-Actual Hrs) = 2.80 ( 4600-3800) =        2,240.00 F

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