Farhan Ullah Aziz has been running an electronics manufacturing business for a long time. The company uses Direct Labor Hours as a cost driver for applying overheads to different products. For the following INDEPENDEDNT situations, identify which variances would likely occur and would they be favorable (write F), unfavorable (write U) or there would be no effect on that variance (write NE). Assume that in every situation, everything else remains constant.

Direct Materials Price Variance F or UF or NE

Direct Materials Quantity Variance F or UF or NE

Labor Rate Variance F or UF or NE

Labor Efficiency Variance F or UF or NE

Variable Overhead Rate Variance F or UF or NE

Variable Overhead Efficiency Variance F or UF or NE

1. Cheap, low cost maintenance tools are purchased resulting in workers having to re-work on several televisions, and wastage of direct materials and machine time.

2. Cheap, unskilled labor kept the machines running even when they were not required for production, wasting energy unnecessarily.

3. The maintenance manager, in a bid to save on costs, reduced maintenance of machinery. The machines broke down more often than anticipated, resulting in loss of productive time for labor

4. Unskilled, low cost labor was employed. They were a bit lazy too!

5. The government increased tax on import of critical components used in production.

6. Transportation company increased charges for delivering raw materials to the company.

7. The company hired a LUMS MBA who could not schedule production runs properly, resulting in loss of time and wastage of materials.

8. The company produced more than anticipated.

9. The standards company uses for variance analysis have not been adjusted for inflation for a few years.

10. Unfortunately, the company hired inefficient SDSB graduates in its accounting and finance department.