Crane Paints manufactures artist's oil paints. Each 40 ml tube of paint requires 5 minutes of direct labor, and the standard labor rate is $7.90 per direct labor hour. In September, Crane incurred 10,940 direct labor hours at a cost of $86,852 to produce 127,000 tubes of paint. Calculate Crane's direct labor rate variance for September. (Round intermediate calculations to 5 decimal places, e.g. 1.24638 and final answer to O decimal places, e.g. 5,275.) Direct labor rate variance $

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Crane Paints manufactures artist's oil paints. Each 40 ml tube of paint requires 5 minutes of direct labor, and the standard labor rate is
$7.90 per direct labor hour. In September, Crane incurred 10,940 direct labor hours at a cost of $86,852 to produce 127,000 tubes of
paint.
Calculate Crane's direct labor rate variance for September. (Round intermediate calculations to 5 decimal places, e.g. 1.24638 and final
answer to O decimal places, e.g. 5,275.)
Direct labor rate variance
$
Transcribed Image Text:Crane Paints manufactures artist's oil paints. Each 40 ml tube of paint requires 5 minutes of direct labor, and the standard labor rate is $7.90 per direct labor hour. In September, Crane incurred 10,940 direct labor hours at a cost of $86,852 to produce 127,000 tubes of paint. Calculate Crane's direct labor rate variance for September. (Round intermediate calculations to 5 decimal places, e.g. 1.24638 and final answer to O decimal places, e.g. 5,275.) Direct labor rate variance $
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