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Waterway, Ltd. manufactures shirts, which it sells to customers for embroidering with various slogans and emblems. The standard cost card for the shirts is as follows.

		Standard Price		Standard Quantity			Standard Cost
Direct materials		$3 per yard		2.00	yards		$6.00
Direct labor		$14 per DLH		0.75	DLH		10.50
Variable overhead		$3.20 per DLH		0.75	DLH		2.40
Fixed overhead		$3 per DLH		0.75	DLH		2.25
							$21.15

Sandy Robison, operations manager, was reviewing the results for November when he became upset by the unfavorable variances he was seeing. In an attempt to understand what had happened, Sandy asked CFO Suzy Summers for more information. She provided the following overhead budgets, along with the actual results for November. The company purchased 81,600 yards of fabric and used 93,200 yards of fabric during the month. Fabric purchases during the month were made at $2.80 per yard. The direct labor payroll ran $454,475, with an actual hourly rate of $12.25 per direct labor hour. The annual budgets were based on the production of 596,000 shirts, using 446,000 direct labor hours. Though the budget for November was based on 45,100 shirts, the company actually produced 41,600 shirts during the month.

		Variable Overhead Budget
		Annual Budget		Per Shirt		NovemberActual
Indirect material		$454,000		$1.20		$48,700
Indirect labor		303,000		0.75		31,300
Equipment repair		204,000		0.30		20,100
Equipment power		46,000		0.15		7,300
Total		$1,007,000		$2.40		$107,400

		Fixed Overhead Budget
		Annual Budget		NovemberActual
Supervisory salaries		$262,000		$21,000
Insurance		348,000		28,000
Property taxes		80,000		6,800
Depreciation		316,000		25,900
Utilities		215,000		20,200
Quality inspection		279,000		24,700
Total		$1,500,000		$126,600

(a) Calculate the direct materials price and quantity variances for November. (If variance is zero, select "Not Applicable" and enter 0 for the amounts.)

Direct material price variance	$enter the direct material price variance in dollars	select an option UnfavorableNot ApplicableFavorable
Direct material quantity variance	$enter the direct material quantity variance in dollars	select an option FavorableUnfavorableNot Applicable

(b) Calculate the direct labor rate and efficiency variances for November. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 125. If variance is zero, select "Not Applicable" and enter 0 for the amounts.)

Direct labor rate variance	$enter the direct labor rate variance in dollars	select an option UnfavorableFavorableNot Applicable
Direct labor efficiency variance	$enter the direct labor efficiency variance in dollars	select an option UnfavorableNot ApplicableFavorable

(c) Calculate the variable overhead spending and efficiency variances for November. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 125. If variance is zero, select "Not Applicable" and enter 0 for the amounts.)

Variable overhead spending variance	$enter the variable overhead spending variance in dollars	select an option UnfavorableFavorableNot Applicable
Variable overhead efficiency variance	$enter the variable overhead efficiency variance in dollars	select an option UnfavorableNot ApplicableFavorable

(d) Calculate the fixed overhead spending variance for November. (Round answer to 0 decimal places, e.g. 125. If variance is zero, select "Not Applicable" and enter 0 for the amounts.)

Fixed overhead spending variance

$enter the fixed overhead spending variance in dollars

select an option Not ApplicableFavorableUnfavorable