Shawl Corporation's Variable Overhead Is Applied on the Basis of Direct

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Essay

Shawl Corporation's variable overhead is applied on the basis of direct labor-hours. The standard cost card for product F02E specifies 5.5 direct labor-hours per unit of F02E. The standard variable overhead rate is $6.80 per direct labor-hour. During the most recent month, 1,560 units of product F02E were made and 8,700 direct labor-hours were worked.
The actual variable overhead incurred was $52,635.
Required:
a. What was the variable overhead rate variance for the month?
b. What was the variable overhead efficiency variance for the month?

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Definitions:

Non-Value-Added

Activities or processes that consume resources but do not add to the product's value or the customer's experience.

Throughput Time

The complete duration required for an item to go through the entire manufacturing cycle, beginning to end.

Manufacturing Cycle Efficiency

A ratio showing the value-added time as a percentage of the total lead time within a manufacturing process.

Delivery Cycle Time

The total time taken from receiving a customer order to delivering the finished product to the customer, encompassing all stages of the order processing and production process.