Required: 1. What is the standard labor-hours allowed (SH) to ship 165,000 items to customers? 2. What is the standard variable overhead cost allowed (SH x SR) to ship 165,000 items to customers? 3. What is the variable overhead spending variance? 4. What is the variable overhead rate variance and the variable overhead efficiency variance?
Required: 1. What is the standard labor-hours allowed (SH) to ship 165,000 items to customers? 2. What is the standard variable overhead cost allowed (SH x SR) to ship 165,000 items to customers? 3. What is the variable overhead spending variance? 4. What is the variable overhead rate variance and the variable overhead efficiency variance?
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Transcribed Image Text:**Logistics Solutions - Order Fulfillment Services Analysis**
Logistics Solutions provides order fulfillment services for dot.com merchants. The company 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.
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### Monthly Performance Data
- **Items Shipped:** 165,000
- **Direct Labor-Hours Used:** 6,800
- **Variable Overhead Costs Incurred:** $22,100
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### Company Standards
- **Direct Labor-Hours per Item:** 0.04
- **Variable Overhead Rate:** $3.30 per direct labor-hour
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### Required Analysis
1. **Standard Labor-Hours Allowed (SH) for 165,000 Items:**
2. **Standard Variable Overhead Cost (SH × SR) for 165,000 Items:**
3. **Variable Overhead Spending Variance:**
4. **Variable Overhead Efficiency Variance:**
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### Calculation Framework
#### Standard Quantities and Rates
- **SH (Standard Hours)** = Number of Items × Direct Labor-Hours per Item
- **SR (Standard Rate)** = Variable Overhead Rate per Direct Labor-Hour
#### Variance Calculations
- **Variable Overhead Spending Variance:** Compare actual overhead costs to the expected costs based on actual hours worked.
- **Variable Overhead Efficiency Variance:** Compare standard hours for actual production to actual hours used.
### Table for Variance Analysis
| | Favorable "F" | Unfavorable "U" | None (Zero Variance) "None" |
|--------------------------|:-------------:|:---------------:|:----------------------------:|
| Standard quantity of labor-hours allowed | F / U / None | F / U / None | F / U / None |
| Standard variable overhead cost allowed | F / U / None | F / U / None | F / U / None |
| Variable overhead spending variance | F / U / None | F / U / None | F / U / None |
| Variable overhead rate variance | F / U / None | F / U / None |
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