Esquire Clothing is a manufacturer of designer suits. The cost of each suit is the sum of three variable costs ( direct material costs, direct manufacturing labor costs, and manufacturing overhead costs) and one fixed- cost category ( manufacturing overhead costs). Variable manufacturing overhead cost is allocated to each suit on the basis of budgeted direct manufacturing labor- hours per suit. For June 2012 each suit is budgeted to take four labor- hours. Budgeted variable manufacturing overhead cost per labor- hour is $ 12. The budgeted number of suits to be manufactured in June 2012 is 1,040.
Actual variable manufacturing costs in June 2012 were $ 52,200 for 1,095 suits started and completed. There was no beginning or ending inventories of suits. Actual direct manufacturing labor-hours for June were 4,566.
1. Compute the flexible- budget variance, the spending variance, and the efficiency variance for variable manufacturing overhead.
2. Comment on the results.