SallyMay, Inc., designs and manufactures T-shirts. It sells its T-shirts to brand-name clothes retailers in lots of one dozen. SallyMay’s May 2016 static budget and actual results for direct inputs are as follows:

SallyMay has a policy of analyzing all input variances when they add up to more than 10% of the total cost of materials and labor in the flexible budget, and this is true in May 2016. The production manager discusses the sources of the variances: “A new type of material was purchased in May. This led to faster cutting and sewing, but the workers used more material than usual as they learned to work with it. For now, the standards are fine.”
1. Calculate the direct materials and direct manufacturing labor price and efficiency variances in May 2016. What is the total flexible-budget variance for both inputs (direct materials and direct manufacturing labor) combined? What percentage is this variance of the total cost of direct materials and direct manufacturing labor in the flexible budget?
2. Comment on the May 2016 results. Would you continue the “experiment” of using the new material?

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Static Budget Number of T-shirt lots (1 lot = 1 dozen) Per Lot of Jackets: Direct materials Direct manufacturing labor Actual Results Number of T-shirt lots sold Total Direct Inputs: Direct materials Direct manufacturing labor 400 14 meters at $1.70 per meter = $23.80 1.6 hours at $8.10 per hour = $12.96 450 6,840 meters at $1.95 per meter = $13,338 675 hours at $8.20 per hour = $5,535