Balladares Incorporated Has a Standard Cost System

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Essay

Balladares Incorporated has a standard cost system. Variable manufacturing overhead is applied to products on the basis of direct labor-hours. The standard for variable manufacturing overhead is 0.10 hours at $6.30 per hour. The company has reported the following actual results for the product for May:
Required:
a. Compute the variable overhead rate variance for May.
b. Compute the variable overhead efficiency variance for May.

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