Question

Pato Company produces leather sandals. The company employs a standard costing

system and has the following standards in order to produce one pair of sandals:

standard quantity standard price direct materials 2 leather strips ?? per strip direct labor 2.5 hours $10 per hour
variable overhead 2.5 hours ?? per hour

During May, Pato purchased leather strips at a total cost of $124,520 and had
direct labor totaling $117,100. During May, Pato used 18,790 leather strips in
the production of sandals. Pato had no beginning inventories of any type for
May. At May 31, Pato had 780 leather strips remaining in its direct materials
inventory.

Pato Company reported the following variances for May:

Direct material price variance .............. $7,100 unfavorable
Direct labor rate variance .................. $29,500 favorable
Total direct labor variance ................. $8,900 unfavorable
Variable overhead spending variance ......... $2,440 favorable
Variable overhead efficiency variance ....... $34,560 unfavorable

Calculate the number of pairs of sandals produced by Pato Company in May

Answer 1