Question: Specialty Polymers, Inc., processes a base chemical into plastic. Standard costs and actual costs for direct materials, direct labor, and factory overhead incurred for the

Specialty Polymers, Inc., processes a base chemical into plastic. Standard costs and actual costs for direct materials, direct labor, and factory overhead incurred for the manufacture of 19,000 units of product were as follows:

Standard Costs 2,500 Ibs. at $8.10 3,800 hrs. at $17.50o Rates per direct labor hr., based on 100% of normal capacity of

Each unit requires 0.2 hour of direct labor.
Determine 

(a) The price variance, quantity variance, and total direct materials cost variance; 

(b) The rate variance, time variance, and total direct labor cost variance; 

(c) Variable factory overhead controllable variance, the fixed factory overhead volume variance, and total factory overhead cost variance.

Standard Costs 2,500 Ibs. at $8.10 3,800 hrs. at $17.50o Rates per direct labor hr., based on 100% of normal capacity of 3,900 direct labor hrs.: Variable cost, $2.20 Fixed cost, $3.50 Actual Costs 2,440 Ibs. at $8.30 3,750 hrs. at $17.68 Direct materials Direct labor Factory overhead $8,100 variable cost $13,650 fixed cost

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