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Deskins Clothiers is a small company that manufactures tall-men’s suits. The company has used a standard cost accounting system. In May 2012, 11,200 suits were produced. The following standard and actual cost data applied to the month of May when normal capacity was 14,000 direct labour hours. All materials purchased were used.

Overhead is applied on the basis of direct labour hours. At normal capacity, budgeted fixed overhead costs were $49,000, and budgeted variable overhead was $35,000.

Instructions

(a) Compute the total, price, and quantity variances for (1) materials and (2) labour.

(b) Compute the total overhead variance.

(c) Which of the materials and labour variances should be investigated if management considers a variance of more than 4% from standard to be significant?