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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, 145,000 items were shipped to customers using 5,600 direct labor-hours. The company incurred a total of $17,080 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 $3.10 per direct labor-hour.

Required:

1. What is the standard labor-hours allowed (SH) to ship 145,000 items to customers?

2. What is the standard variable overhead cost allowed (SH × SR) to ship 145,000 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?

Explanation / Answer

1 Standard labor-hours allowed=145000*0.04= 5800 2 Standard variable overhead cost allowed=5800*3.1= 17980 3 Variable overhead spending variance = 17080-17980= 900 F 4 Variable overhead rate variance=17080-(5600*3.1)= 280 F Variable overhead efficiency variance=3.1*(5600-5800)= 620 F

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