The cheque-clearing office of Pay Loans Company is responsible for processing all cheques that come to the company for payment. Managers at the company believe that variable overhead costs are essentially proportional to the number of labour-hours worked in the office, so labour-hours are used as the activity base when preparing variable overhead budgets and performance reports. Data for October, the most recent month, appear below: Budgeted labour-hours 1, 430 Actual labour-hours 1,335 Standard labour-hours allowed for the actual number of cheques processed 1, 450 Cost . Actual Formula Costs (per Incurred labour- in hour) October Variable overhead costs: Office supplies $ 1. 60 $2, 074 Staff coffee lounge 0. 40 584 Indirect labour 3.20 3, 600 Total variable overhead cost $ 5.20 $6, 258 Fixed overhead at Pay Loans Company consists entirely of supervisory salaries and is applied at a rate of $4 per direct labour-hour. Actual fixed overhead costs totalled $4,400 in October, while the flexible budget was $4,000 for the month. Required. Prepare an overhead performance report for October for the cheque-clearing office that includes both spending and efficiency variances for variable overhead and the budget variance for fixed overhead. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favourable, "U" for unfavourable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance).) PAY LOANS COMPANY Overhead Performance Report For the Month Ended October 31 MacBook ProRequired. Prepare an overhead performance report for October for the cheque-clearing office that includes both spending and efficiency variances for variable overhead and the budget variance for fixed overhead. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favourable, "U" for unfavourable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance).) PAY LOANS COMPANY Overhead Performance Report For the Month Ended October 31 Breakdown of the Total Variance Cost Actual Costs Flexible Flexible Incurred for Overhead costs Formula Budget Based Budget Based Total Variance Spending (Budget) Efficiency Variance (per labour- 1,335 Labour- on 1,335 on 1,450 Variance hour Hours Labour-Hours Labour-Hours Variable overhead costs: Office supplies $ 1.60 $ 2,074 $ 2, 136 $ 2,320 Staff coffee lounge 0.40 584 534 580 Indirect labour 3.20 3,600 4,272 4,640 Total variable overhead cost 5.20 $ 6,258 $ 6,942 $ 7,540 Fixed overhead costs: Supervisory salaries 4,400 Total overhead cost $ 10,658