Reference no: EM132595496

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, 120,000 items were shipped to customers using 2,300 direct labor-hours. The company incurred a total of $7,360 in variable overhead costs.

According to the company's standards, 0.02 direct labor-hours are required to fulfill an order for one item and the variable overhead rate is $3.25 per direct labor-hour.

Required:

Question 1. What is the standard labor-hours allowed (SH) to ship 120,000 items to customers?

Question 2. What is the standard variable overhead cost allowed (SH × SR) to ship 120,000 items to customers?

Question 3. What is the variable overhead spending variance?

Question 4. What is the variable overhead rate variance and the variable overhead efficiency variance?