21-3a Ikon tire Co manufactures automobile tires. Standard costs and actual costs for direct materials, direct labor and factory overhead incurred for the manufacture of 36,000 tires were as follows:
Direct materials: Standard costs 72,000 lbs at 4.50 Actual costs 73,100 lbs at 4.80
Direct labor: Standard costs 18,000 hours at 18.00 Actual costs 18,500 at 17.88
Factory overhead: rates per direct labor hour, based on 100% of normal capacity of 20,000 direct labor hours:
Standard costs: variable cost, 2.40 fixed costs 3.75
Actual costs variable costs 42,870 fixed cost 75,000
Each tire requires .50 hour of direct labor
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