Sixty-six-year-old alex is in the process of retiring from his position as the head of litigation in a law firm. over the next six months, he will oversee cases of the younger associates and work part time editing legal briefs, and then he will exit the firm. alex is doing for his firm before he retires.

Turrubiates corporation makes a product that uses a material with the following standards standard quantity 8.0 liters per unit standard price $2.50 per liter standard cost $20.00 per unit the company budgeted for production of 3,800 units in april, but actual production was 3,900 units. the company used 32,000 liters of direct material to produce this output. the company purchased 20,100 liters of the direct material at $2.6 per liter. the direct materials purchases variance is computed when the materials are purchased. the materials quantity variance for april is: