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Exercise 23-6 x Your answer is incorrect. Try again. Lewis Company's standard labor cost of producing one unit of Product DD is 3.6 hours at the rate of $13.2 per hour. During August, 43,000 hours of labor are incurred at a cost of $13.30 per hour to produce 11,800 units of Product DD. (a) Compute the total labor variance. Total labor variance -5 m in ravorable (b) Compute the labor price and quantity variances. Labor price variance Labor quantity variance (c) Compute the labor price and quantity variances, assuming the standard is 3.9 hours of direct labor at $13.50 per hour. Labor price variance Labor quantity variance Click if you would like to Show Work for this question: Open Show Work

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Answer

Direct labor Hours

Rate per DLH

Cost

Direct labor [Actual]

43000

$13.3

$571,900

Direct labor [Standard]

42480

$13.2

$560,736

Total Labor variance = Standard Cost – Actual Cost = 560736 – 571900 = 11,164 Unfavourable

Labor Price Variance

(

Standard Rate

-

Actual Rate

)

x

Actual Labor Hours

(

$               13.20

-

$               13.30

)

x

43000

-4300

Variance

4300

Unfavourable-U

Labour Quantity Variance

(

Standard Hours

-

Actual Hours

)

x

Standard Rate

(

42480

-

43000

)

x

$                        13.20

-6864

Variance

6864

Unfavourable-U

Labor Rate Variance

(

Standard Rate

-

Actual Rate

)

x

Actual Labor Hours

(

$               13.50

-

$               13.30

)

x

43000

8600

Variance

8600

Favourable-F

Labour Efficiency Variance

(

Standard Hours [11800 x 3.9]

-

Actual Hours

)

x

Standard Rate

(

46020

-

43000

)

x

$                        13.50

40770

Variance

40770

Favourable-F

Direct labor Hours

Rate per DLH

Cost

Direct labor [Actual]

43000

$13.3

$571,900

Direct labor [Standard]

42480

$13.2

$560,736