Bowie Sporting Goods manufactures sleeping bags. The manufacturing standards per sleeping bag, based on 5,000 sleeping bags per month, are as follows: Direct material of 4.00 yards at $5.00 per yard Direct labor of 2.50 hours at $16.00 per hour Overhead applied per sleeping bag at $15.00 In the month of April, the company actually produced 5,200 sleeping bags using 27,300 yards of material at a cost of $5.10 per yard. The labor used was 11,700 hours at an average rate of $20.50 per hour. The actual overhead spending was $96,200. Determine the total materials variance and round to the nearest whole dollar. Enter a favorable variance as a negative number. Enter an unfavorable variance as a positive number.
Variance Analysis
In layman's terms, variance analysis is an analysis of a difference between planned and actual behavior. Variance analysis is mainly used by the companies to maintain a control over a business. After analyzing differences, companies find the reasons for the variance so that the necessary steps should be taken to correct that variance.
Standard Costing
The standard cost system is the expected cost per unit product manufactured and it helps in estimating the deviations and controlling them as well as fixing the selling price of the product. For example, it helps to plan the cost for the coming year on the various expenses.
Bowie Sporting Goods manufactures sleeping bags. The manufacturing standards per sleeping bag, based on 5,000 sleeping bags per month, are as follows:
Direct material of 4.00 yards at $5.00 per yard
Direct labor of 2.50 hours at $16.00 per hour
Overhead applied per sleeping bag at $15.00
In the month of April, the company actually produced 5,200 sleeping bags using 27,300 yards of material at a cost of $5.10 per yard. The labor used was 11,700 hours at an average rate of $20.50 per hour. The actual overhead spending was $96,200.
Determine the total materials variance and round to the nearest whole dollar. Enter a favorable variance as a negative number. Enter an unfavorable variance as a positive number.
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