The Homer Restaurant Group manufactures the bags of frozen French fries used at its franchised restaurants. Last week, Homer's purchased and used 101,000 pounds of potatoes at a price of $0.70 per pound. During the week, 2,400 direct labor hours were incurred in the plant at a rate of $12.25 per hour. The standard price per pound of potatoes is $0.85, and the standard direct labor rate is $12.05 per hour. Standards indicate that for the number of bags of frozen fries produced, the factory should have used 98,000 pounds of potatoes and 2,100 hours of direct labor. Read the requirements! Requirement 1. Determine the direct material price and quantity variances. Be sure to label each variance as favorable or unfavorable. (Enter the variances as positive numbers. Enter currency amounts to the nearest cent and your answers to the nearest whole dollar. Label the variances as favorable (F) or unfavorable (U). Abbrevlations used: DM = Direct materials.) Begin by determining the formula for the price variance, then compute the price variance for direct materials. (2) (3) DM price variance Determine the formula for the quantity variance, then compute the quantity variance for direct materials. (5) (6) (7) = DM quantity variance (8) Requirement 2. Think of a plausible explanation for the varlances found in Requirement 1. One plausible explanation is that Homer bought (9) price, which resulted in the (10) price variance. However, because the potatoes were (11). As a result, the manufacturing facility (12) potatoes than standards allow. This accounts for the (13) efficiency varlance. Requirement 3. Determine the direct labor rate and efficiency variances. (Enter the variances as positive numbers. Enter currency amounts to the nearest cent and your answers to the nearest whole dollar. Label the variances as favorable (F) or unfavorable (U). Abbreviations used: DL = Direct labor.) Begin wth the the direct labor rate variance. First determine the formula for the rate variance, then compute the rate variance for direct labor. (14) x (15) (16) DL rate variance (17) Now determine the direct labor efficiency varlance. First determine the formula for the efficiency variance, then compute the efficiency variance for direct labor. (18) x (19) (20) 2 DL efficiency varlance (21) > Requirement 4. Could the explanation for the labor variances be tied to the material variances? Explain. The (22) labor rate and efficiency variances (23) be tied to the material variances. For example, if the material variances were the result of purchasing (24) then the factory would use (25) labor in sorting the potatoes. As a result, they would have had to pay workers (26) (1) OOOO Actual hours Actual price Actual quantity purchased Standard hours allowed Standard price Standard quantity allowed (2) O Actual hours Actual pnce Actual quantity purchased OOOO U Standard hours allowed Standard price Standard quantity allowed (3) Actual hours O Actual price Actual quantity purchased WD Standard hours allowed Standard price D Standard quantity allowed MDF UU (5) o Actual hours Actual price Actual quantity used . . 0000 Standard hours allowed D Standard price Standard quantity allowed (6) Actual hours Actual price Actual quantity used Standard hours allowed OD Standard price KD Standard quantity allowed (7) Actual hours O Actual price O Actual quantity used Oo ON Standard hours allowed Standard price Standard quantity allowed (8) D KD F DU (9) O higher lower grade potatoes at a higher lower grade potatoes at a cheaper (10) D favorable Kunfavorable (11) D higher grade some ol the potatoes were larger than normal O lower grade, some of the potatoes were bad. and could not be used in production (12) had to use more O was able to use fewer (13) o favorable O unfavorable (14) O oooo Standard hours allowed Standard rate Actual hours Actual quantity purchased Actual rate (15) O 00 Standard hours allowed Standard rate Actual hours Actual quantity purchased Actual rate (16) O Actual hours O Actual quantity purchased Actual rate Standard hours allowed Standard rate (17) O OF OU (18) O Actual hours Actual quantity purchased O Actual rate Standard hours allowed Standard rate (19) Standard hours allowed O Standard rate Actual hours Actual quantity purchased Actual rate Standard hours allowed Standard rate (20) O O Actual hours O Actual quantity purchased O Actual rate (21) O OF OU (22) O favorable unfavorable (23) O could could not (24) higher grade potatoes lower grade potatoes (25) O less more O the same amount of (26) O an overtime premium for fewer hours O for their normal hours