Kalina’s Doll Company produces handmade dolls. The standard amount of time spent on each doll is 2.0 hours. The standard cost of labor is $10 per hour. The company planned to make 8,000 dolls during the year but actually used 17,500 hours of labor to make 9,000 dolls. The pay-roll amounted to $172,375.

Required
a. Should labor variances be based on the planned volume of 8,000 dolls or the actual volume of 9,000 dolls?
b. Prepare a table that shows the standard labor price, the actual labor price, the standard labor hours, and the actual labor hours.
c. Compute the labor price variance and indicate whether it is favorable (F) or unfavorable (U).
d. Compute the labor usage variance and indicate whether it is favorable (F) or unfavorable (U).