The Platter Valley factory of Bybee Industries manufactures field boots. The cost of each boot includes direct materials, direct labor, and manufacturing overhead. The firm traces all direct costs to products, and it assigns overhead based on direct labor hours.

The company budgeted $15,000 variable overhead and 2,500 direct labor hours to manufacture 5,000 pairs of boots in March 2010.

The factory spent 2,700 direct labor hours in March 2010 to manufacture 4,800 pairs of boots and spent $15,600 on variable overhead during the month.

Budgeted variable factory overhead							$ 15,000
Budgeted direct labor hours							2,500
Budgeted production in pairs of boots							5,000
Actual variable factory overhead							$ 15,600
Actual direct labor hours							2,700
Actual production in pairs of boots							4,800

Required

1. Compute the flexible-budget variance, the spending variance, and the efficiency variance for variable overhead for March.

2. Provide appropriate journal entries to record the variable overhead spending and efficiency variances.

3. Comment on the factory’s operation in March 2010 with regard to variable overhead.