Esquire Clothing is a manufacturer of designer suits. The cost of each suit is the sum of three variable costs (direct material costs, direct manufacturing labor costs, and manufacturing overhead costs) and one fixed-cost category (manufacturing overhead costs). (Click the icon to view additional information.) Read the requirements. Requirement 1. Compute the flexible-budget variance, the spending variance, and the efficiency variance for variable manufacturing overhead. Begin by computing the following amounts for the variable manufacturing overhead. Actual Input Qty. Actual Costs Incurred x Budgeted Rate Flexible Budget Allocated Overhead Now compute the variances: flexible-budget variance, then spending variance, and finally the efficiency variance. Label each variance as favorable (F) or unfavorable (U). Flexible-budget variance Spending variance Efficiency variance Requirement 2. Comment on the results. Esquire had had spending variance because the actual variable overhead rate per direct manufacturing labor-hour was than the budgeted. It efficiency variance because each suit averaged labor-hours than budgeted.