In December of Year 2 operations (month 24), Memories, Inc. actually produced and sold 32,675 figurines, consisting of 30,570 dolls and 2,105 replicas, The budgeted sales price for dolls was $5.00, and $5.25 for replicas. The estimated production and sales during December was 31,678 dolls and 2,595 replicas.

Assuming MI used a predetermined overhead rate of $2.13 per DLH, compute the variable overhead rate and efficiency variances. MI actually paid $20,852 in total overhead costs, consisting of $17,002 of variable overhead and $3,850 of fixed overhead. How would these variances be interpreted? What might have caused them? Would you consider them large enough to be important?