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Swifty, Ltd. manufactures shirts, which it sells to customers for embroidering with various slogans and emblems. The standard cost card for the shirts is as follows.

		Standard Price		Standard Quantity			Standard Cost
Direct materials		$3 per yard		2.00	yards		$6.00
Direct labor		$14 per DLH		0.75	DLH		10.50
Variable overhead		$3.20 per DLH		0.75	DLH		2.40
Fixed overhead		$3 per DLH		0.75	DLH		2.25
							$21.15

Sandy Robison, operations manager, was reviewing the results for November when he became upset by the unfavorable variances he was seeing. In an attempt to understand what had happened, Sandy asked CFO Suzy Summers for more information. She provided the following overhead budgets, along with the actual results for November. The company purchased 80,600 yards of fabric and used 92,200 yards of fabric during the month. Fabric purchases during the month were made at $2.80 per yard. The direct labor payroll ran $442,225, with an actual hourly rate of $12.25 per direct labor hour. The annual budgets were based on the production of 586,000 shirts, using 436,000 direct labor hours. Though the budget for November was based on 44,100 shirts, the company actually produced 40,600 shirts during the month.

		Variable Overhead Budget
		Annual Budget		Per Shirt		NovemberActual
Indirect material		$455,000		$1.20		$49,000
Indirect labor		299,000		0.75		31,500
Equipment repair		201,000		0.30		20,200
Equipment power		48,000		0.15		7,400
Total		$1,003,000		$2.40		$108,100

		Fixed Overhead Budget
		Annual Budget		NovemberActual
Supervisory salaries		$256,000		$21,900
Insurance		351,000		27,700
Property taxes		76,000		6,900
Depreciation		324,000		26,000
Utilities		217,000		20,800
Quality inspection		276,000		24,500
Total		$1,500,000		$127,800

(a) Calculate the direct materials price and quantity variances for November. (If variance is zero, select "Not Applicable" and enter 0 for the amounts.)

Direct material price variance	$enter the direct material price variance in dollars	select an option FavorableUnfavorableNot Applicable
Direct material quantity variance	$enter the direct material quantity variance in dollars	select an option FavorableNot ApplicableUnfavorable

(b) Calculate the direct labor rate and efficiency variances for November. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 125. If variance is zero, select "Not Applicable" and enter 0 for the amounts.)

Direct labor rate variance	$enter the direct labor rate variance in dollars	select an option UnfavorableFavorableNot Applicable
Direct labor efficiency variance	$enter the direct labor efficiency variance in dollars	select an option Not ApplicableFavorableUnfavorable

(c) Calculate the variable overhead spending and efficiency variances for November. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 125. If variance is zero, select "Not Applicable" and enter 0 for the amounts.)

Variable overhead spending variance	$enter the variable overhead spending variance in dollars	select an option FavorableNot ApplicableUnfavorable
Variable overhead efficiency variance	$enter the variable overhead efficiency variance in dollars	select an option FavorableUnfavorableNot Applicable

(d) Calculate the fixed overhead spending variance for November. (Round answer to 0 decimal places, e.g. 125. If variance is zero, select "Not Applicable" and enter 0 for the amounts.)

Fixed overhead spending variance

$enter the fixed overhead spending variance in dollars

select an option Not ApplicableFavorableUnfavorable

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