Patel and Sons, Inc., uses a standard cost system to apply overhead costs to units produced. Practical capacity for the plant is defined as 55,500 machine hours per year, which represents 27,750 units of output. Annual budgeted fixed overhead costs are $277,500 and the budgeted variable overhead cost rate is $3.80 per unit. Factory overhead costs are applied on the basis of standard machine hours allowed for units produced. Budgeted and actual output for the year was 21,600 units, which took 44,500 machine hours. Actual fixed overhead costs for the year amounted to $270,600 while the actual variable overhead cost per unit was $3.70.

Requires: (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount)

A. Based on the information provided above, what was the fixed overhead spending (budget) variance for the year?

B. What was the fixed overhead production volume variance for the year?

C. Based on the information provided above, what was the variable overhead spending variance for the year?

D. What was the variable overhead efficiency variance for the year?

E. Based on the information provided above, provide the correct summary journal entries for actual and applied overhead costs (both variable and fixed) for the year. Assume that the company uses a single account, Factory Overhead, to record both actual and applied overhead. Also, assume that the only variable overhead cost was electricity and that actual fixed overhead consisted of depreciation of $169,000 and supervisory salaries of $96,900.

F. Based on the information provided above, provide the appropriate journal entries: (a) to record the overhead cost variances for the period (thereby closing out the balance in the Factory Overhead account), and (b) to close the variance accounts to the CGS account at the end of the period.