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Question - Variable Overhead Variances - Logistics Solutions provides order fulfillment services for dot.com merchants. The company maintains warehouses that stock items carried by its dot.com clients. When a client receives an order from a customer, the order is forwarded to Logistics Solutions, which pulls the item from storage, packs it, and ships it to the customer. The company uses a predetermined variable overhead rate based on direct labor-hours.

In the most recent month, 160,000 items were shipped to customers using 6,500 direct labor-hours. The company incurred a total of $20,800 in variable overhead costs.

According to the company's standards, 0.03 direct labor-hours are required to fulfill an order for one item and the variable overhead rate is $3.25 per direct labor-hour.

Required -

1. What is the standard labor-hours allowed (SH) to ship 160.000 items to customers?

2. What is the standard variable overhead cost allowed [SH X SR) to ship 160,000 items to customers?

3. What is the variable overhead spending variance?

4. What is the variable overhead rate variance and the variable overhead efficiency variance?