Natural Remedy Company gathered the following actual results for the current month: Actual amounts: Units produced Direct labor cost (9,000 hours) Budgeted production and standard costs were: Budgeted production Direct labor 5,300 $49,500 4,900 2 hrs./unit at $10.00/hr. What is the direct labor rate 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…