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 Actual labour-hours Standard labour-hours allowed for the actual number of cheques processed 1,480 1,360 1,500 Cost Formula (per labour- hour) Actual Costs Incurred in October Variable overhead costs: Office supplies Staff coffee lounge Indirect labour Total variable overhead cost $ 0.70 0.50 3.70 $ 901 660 3,999 $ 5,560 $ 4.90 Fixed overhead at Pay Loans Company consists entirely of supervisory salaries and is applied at a rate of $5 per direct labour-hour. Actual fixed overhead costs totalled $5,240 in October, while the flexible budget was $5,000 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 Breakdown of the Total Overhead costs Cost Actual Costs Formula Incurred for (per labour- 1,360 Labour- hour) Hours Flexible Flexible Budget Based Budget Based on 1,360 on 1,500 Labour-Hours Labour-Hours Total Variance Spending (Budget) Variance Efficie $ 0.70 $ 901 Variable overhead costs: Office supplies Staff coffee lounge Indirect labour Total variable overhead cost 0.50 660 3.70 3,999 5,560 $ 4.90 $ Overhead Performance Report For the Month Ended October 31 Breakdown of the Total Overhead costs Cost Actual Costs Flexible Flexible Formula Incurred for Budget Based Budget Based (per labour- 1,360 Labour- on 1,360 on 1,500 hour) Hours Labour-Hours Labour-Hours Total Variance Spending (Budget) Variance Efficie $ 0.70 $ 901 Variable overhead costs: Office supplies Staff coffee lounge Indirect labour 0.50 660 3.70 3,999 Total variable overhead cost $ 4.90 $ 5,560 Fixed overhead costs: Supervisory salaries Total overhead cost 5,240 10,800 $