Costello Corporation manufactures a single product. The standard cost per unit of product is shown below.
| Direct materialsAf?cAc‚¬”2 pound plastic at $7.46 per pound | $ 14.92 | |
| Direct laborAf?cAc‚¬”1.50 hours at $11.00 per hour | 16.50 | |
| Variable manufacturing overhead | 9.75 | |
| Fixed manufacturing overhead | 11.25 | |
| Total standard cost per unit | $52.42 |
The predetermined manufacturing overhead rate is $14 per direct labor hour ($21.00 AfA?A?· 1.50). It was computed from a master manufacturing overhead budget based on normal production of 9,000 direct labor hours (6,000 units) for the month. The master budget showed total variable costs of $58,500 ($6.50 per hour) and total fixed overhead costs of $67,500 ($7.50 per hour). Actual costs for October in producing 4,600 units were as follows.
| Direct materials (9,340 pounds) | $ 72,292 | |
| Direct labor (6,730 hours) | 75,645 | |
| Variable overhead | 67,811 | |
| Fixed overhead | 30,919 | |
| Total manufacturing costs | $246,667 |
The purchasing department buys the quantities of raw materials that are expected to be used in production each month. Raw materials inventories, therefore, can be ignored.
(a) Compute all of the materials and labor variances.
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