Bowie Sporting Goods manufactures sleeping bags
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 5.50 yards at $5.25 per yard
Direct labor of 2.50 hours at $20.00 per hour
Overhead applied per sleeping bag at $18.00
In the month of April, the company actually produced 4,900 sleeping bags using 25,000 yards of material at a cost of $5.10 per yard. The labor used was 11,500 hours at an average rate of $17.50 per hour. The actual overhead spending was $96,200.
Determine the materials price variance and round to the nearest whole dollar. Enter a favorable variance as a negative number. Enter an unfavorable variance as a positive number.