EXERCISE 10-1 Direct Materials Varlances LO10-1 Bandar Industries manufactures sporting equipment. One of the company's products is a football helmet that requires special plastic. During the quarter ending June 30 , the company mariufactured 35,000 helmets, using 22,500 kilograms of plastic. The plastic cost the company $171,000. According to the standard cost card, each helmet should require 0.6 kilograms of plastic. at a cost of $8 per kilogram. Required: 1. What is the standard quantity of kilograms of plastic (SQ) that is allowed to make 35,000 helmets? 2. What is the standard materials cost allowed (SQSP) to make 35,000 helmets? 3. What is the materials spending variance? 4. What is the materials price variance and the materials quantity variance? EXERCISE 10-2 Direct Labor Varlances LO 102 SkyChefs, Inc., prepares in-flight meals for a number of major airlines. One of the company's products is grilled salmon with new potatoes and mixed vegetables. During the most recent week. the company prepared 4,000 of these meals using 960 direct labor-hours. The company paid its direct labor workers a total of $19,200 for this work, or $20.00 per hour. According to the standard cost card for this meal, it should require 0.25 direct labor-hours at a cost of $19.75 per hour. Required: 1. What is the standard labor-hours allowed (SH) to prepare 4,000 meals? 2. What is the standard labor cost allowed (SHSR) to prepare 4,000 meals? 3. What is the labor spending variance? 4. What is the labor rate variance and the labor efficiency variance? EXERCISE 10-3 Varlable Overhead Varlances LO10-3 Logistics Solutions provides order fulfillment services for dot.com merchants. The company maintains warehouses that stock items carried by its dot.com clients. When a client receives an order from a customer, the order is forwarded to Logistics Solutions, which pulls the item from storage, packs it, and ships it to the customer. The company uses a predetermined variable overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. In the most recent month, 120,000 items were shipped to customers using 2,300 direct labor-hours. The company incurred a total of $7,360 in variable overhead costs. According to the company's standards, 0.02 direct labor-hours are required to fulfill an order for one item and the variable overhead rate is $3.25 per direct labor-hour. Required: 1. What is the standard labor-hours allowed (SH) to ship 120,000 items to costomers? 2. What is the standard variable overhead cost allowed (SHSR) to ship 120,000 items to customers? 3. What is the variable overhead spending variance? 4. What is the variable overhead rate variance and the variable overhead efficiency variance