Logistics Solutions maintains warehouses that stock items carried by its dot.com clients. When a client receives an order from a customer, the order is forwarded to Logistics Solutions, which pulls the item from storage, packs it, and ships it to the customer. The company uses a predetermined variable overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. In the most recent month, 125,000 items were shipped to customers using 4,400 direct labor-hours. The company incurred a total of $12,540 in variable overhead costs. According to the company's standards, 0.04 direct labor-hour is required to fulfill an order for one item and the variable overhead rate is $2.90 per direct labor-hour. Required: 1. What is the standard labor-hours allowed (SH) to ship 125,000 items to customers? 2. What is the standard variable overhead cost allowed (SH x SR) to ship 125,000 items to customers? 3. What is the variable overhead spending variance? 4. What are the variable overhead rate variance and the variable overhead efficiency variance? Note: For requirements 3 and 4, indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and

Logistics Solutions maintains warehouses that stock items carried by its dot.com clients. When a client receives an order from a customer, the order is forwarded to Logistics Solutions, which pulls the item from storage, packs it, and ships it to the customer. The company uses a predetermined variable overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. In the most recent month, 125,000 items were shipped to customers using 4,400 direct labor-hours. The company incurred a total of $12,540 in variable overhead costs. According to the company's standards, 0.04 direct labor-hour is required to fulfill an order for one item and the variable overhead rate is $2.90 per direct labor-hour. Required: 1. What is the standard labor-hours allowed (SH) to ship 125,000 items to customers? 2. What is the standard variable overhead cost allowed (SH x SR) to ship 125,000 items to customers? 3. What is the variable overhead spending variance? 4. What are the variable overhead rate variance and the variable overhead efficiency variance? Note: For requirements 3 and 4, indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

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