Lucia Company has set the following standard cost per unit for direct materials and direct labor. Direct materials (15 pounds @ $4 per pound) Direct labor (3 hours @ $15 per hour) During May the company incurred the following actual costs to produce 8,400 units. Direct materials (129,500 pounds @ $3.80 per pound) Direct labor (28,600 hours @ $15.10 per hour) AR = Actual Rate SR Standard Rate AQ Actual Quantity SQ Standard Quantity AP = Actual Price SP = Standard Price $ 60 45 $ 492,100 431,860 (1) Compute the direct materials price and quantity variances. (2) Compute the direct labor rate variance and the direct labor efficiency variance.

In layman's terms, variance analysis is an analysis of a difference between planned and actual behavior. Variance analysis is mainly used by the companies to maintain a control over a business. After analyzing differences, companies find the reasons for …

The standard cost system is the expected cost per unit product manufactured and it helps in estimating the deviations and controlling them as well as fixing the selling price of the product. For example, it helps to plan the cost for the coming year on t…