Reference no: EM132964541

Question - Bowie Sporting Goods manufactures sleeping bags. The manufacturing standards per sleeping bag, based on 5,000 sleeping bags per month, are as follows: Direct material of 5.00 yards at $5.00 per yard Direct labor of 3.00 hours at $17.00 per hour Overhead applied per sleeping bag at $19.00 In the month of April, the company actually produced 5,200 sleeping bags using 27,300 yards of material at a cost of $5.50 per yard. The labor used was 11,700 hours at an average rate of $17.50 per hour. The actual overhead spending was $96,200. Determine the total materials variance and round to the nearest whole dollar. Enter a favorable variance as a positive number. Enter an unfavorable variance as a negative number.