Direct Materials, Direct Labor, and Factory Overhead Cost Variance Analysis

Eastern Polymers, Inc., processes a base chemical into plastic. Standard costs and actual costs for direct materials, direct labor, and factory overhead incurred for the manufacture of 4,800 units of product were as follows:

	Standard Costs		Actual Costs
Direct materials	6,700 lbs. at $4.90		6,600 lbs. at $4.80
Direct labor	1,200 hrs. at $17.10		1,230 hrs. at $17.60
Factory overhead	Rates per direct labor hr.,
	based on 100% of normal
	capacity of 1,250 direct
	labor hrs.:
		Variable cost, $4.60	$5,460 variable cost
		Fixed cost, $7.30	$9,125 fixed cost

Each unit requires 0.25 hour of direct labor.

Required:

a. Determine the direct materials price variance, direct materials quantity variance, and total direct materials cost variance. Enter a favorable variance as a negative number using a minus sign and an unfavorable variance as a positive number.

Price variance	$	SelectFavorableUnfavorableItem 2
Quantity variance	$	SelectFavorableUnfavorableItem 4
Total direct materials cost variance	$	SelectFavorableUnfavorableItem 6

b. Determine the direct labor rate variance, direct labor time variance, and total direct labor cost variance. Enter a favorable variance as a negative number using a minus sign and an unfavorable variance as a positive number.

Rate variance	$	SelectFavorableUnfavorableItem 8
Time variance	$	SelectFavorableUnfavorableItem 10
Total direct labor cost variance	$	SelectFavorableUnfavorableItem 12

c. Determine variable factory overhead controllable variance, the fixed factory overhead volume variance, and total factory overhead cost variance. Enter a favorable variance as a negative number using a minus sign and an unfavorable variance as a positive number.

Variable factory overhead controllable variance	$	SelectFavorableUnfavorableItem 14
Fixed factory overhead volume variance	$	SelectFavorableUnfavorableItem 16
Total factory overhead cost variance	$	SelectFavorableUnfavorableItem 18