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Doogan Corporation makes a product with the following
Standard Quantity or Hours | Standard Price or Rate | |||||
Direct materials | 7.4 | grams | $ | 2.00 | per gram | |
Direct labor | 0.5 | hours | $ | 20.00 | per hour | |
Variable |
0.5 | hours | $ | 7.00 | per hour | |
The company produced 5,200 units in January using 39,310 grams of direct material and 2,380 direct labor-hours. During the month, the company purchased 44,400 grams of the direct material at $1.70 per gram. The actual direct labor rate was $19.30 per hour and the actual variable overhead rate was $6.80 per hour.
The company applies variable overhead on the basis of direct labor-hours. The direct materials purchases variance is computed when the materials are purchased.
The materials quantity variance for January is:
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