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

Mackinaw 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 74,000 units of product were as follows:

	Standard Costs		Actual Costs
Direct materials	207,200 lbs. at $5.20		205,100 lbs. at $5.00
Direct labor	18,500 hrs. at $16.90		18,930 hrs. at $17.20
Factory overhead	Rates per direct labor hr.,
	based on 100% of normal
	capacity of 19,310 direct
	labor hrs.:
		Variable cost, $4.70	$86,080 variable cost
		Fixed cost, $7.40	$142,894 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.

Direct Material Price Variance	$
Direct Materials Quantity Variance	$
Total Direct Materials Cost Variance	$

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.

Direct Labor Rate Variance	$
Direct Labor Time Variance	$
Total Direct Labor Cost Variance	$

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	$
Fixed factory overhead volume variance	$
Total factory overhead cost variance	$