Reference no: EM13480664
McDaniel Company manufactures 100-pound bags of fertilizer that have the following unit standard costs for direct materials and direct labor:
Direct Materials (100 lbs. @ $1.00 per lb.) $100.00
Direct Labor (0.5 hours at $24 per hours ) $12.00
Total Standard prime Cost per 100 lb. bag $112.00
The following activities were recorder for October:
• 1,000 bags were manufactured.
• 95,000 lbs. of materials costing $76,000 were purchased.
• 102,500 lbs. of materials were used.
• $12,000 was paid for 475 hours of direct labor.
There were no beginning or ending work-in-process inventories.
Required:
A) Compute the direct material variances.
- What is the Material Price Variance? Favorable or unfavorable?
- What is the Material Usage Variance? Favorable or unfavorable? Show Work for each.
B) Compute the Direct Labor Variances.
- What is the labor rate variance? Favorable or unfavorable?
- What is the Labor efficiency variance? Favorable or unfavorable? Show work for each.
C) C. Give possible reasons for the occurrence of each of the preceding variances.