NSF Lube is a fast-growing chain of oil-change stores. The following data are available for last years services:

NSF Lube performed 475,200 oil changes last year. It had budgeted 432,000 oil changes, averaging 10 minutes each.

Standard variable labor and support costs per oil change were as follows:

Direct oil specialist services: 10 minutes at $24 per hour	$	4
Variable support staff and overhead: 7.5 minutes at $16 per hour		2

Fixed overhead costs:

Annual budget $1,036,000

Fixed overhead is applied at the rate of $2.40 per oil change.

Actual oil change costs:

Direct oil specialist services: 475,200 changes averaging 12 minutes at $26.00 per hour	$	2,471,040
Variable support staff and overhead: 0.14 labor-hours at $15.00 per hour 475,200 changes		997,920
Fixed overhead		1,200,000

Required:

a. Prepare a cost variance analysis for each variable cost for last year. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, or "U" for unfavorable. If there is no effect, do not select either option.)

	Price Variance	F/U	Efficiency Variance	F/U	Total Variance	F/U
Oil Specialist
Variable overhead

b. Prepare a fixed overhead cost variance analysis. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, or "U" for unfavorable. If there is no effect, do not select either option.)

Price variance		F/U
Production volume variance
Fixed overhead cost variance