The cutting department of Morgan Manufacturing Company operated during June 2017 with the following manufacturing overhead cost budget based on 10,000 hours of monthly productive capacity:
Cutting Department
Overhead Budget (10,000 hours)
For the Month of June 2017
Variable costs:
Factory supplies…………………………......$200,000
Indirect labor……………………………………304,000
Utilities (usage charge)………….……….. 136,000
Total variable overhead………………… $640,000
Fixed costs:
Supervisory salaries………………………… $320,000
Factory insurance…………………………… 64,000
Utilities (base charge)…………………….. 160,000
Total fixed overhead………………....... $544,000
Total manufacturing overhead…......... $1,184,000
The cutting department was operated for 9,500 hours during June and incurred the following manufacturing overhead costs:
Actual
Factory supplies……………………………….. $195,100
Indirect labor……………………………………. 277,000
Utilities (usage factor)……………………... 152,300
Utilities (base factor)………………………… 179,000
Supervisory salaries………………………….. 336,000
Factory insurance………………………………. 64,600
Total manufacturing overhead………….. $1,204,000
Required:
Using a flexible budgeting approach, prepare a performance report for the cutting department for June 2017, comparing actual overhead costs with budgeted overhead costs for 9,500 hours. Separate overhead costs into variable and fixed components and show the amounts of any variances between actual and budgeted amounts.
Actual Budget Variance
Actual | Budget | Variance | ||
Hours | 9500 | 9500 | ||
Variable expense | ||||
Factory supplies | 195100 | 190000 | 5100 | U |
Indirect labor | 277000 | 288800 | 11800 | F |
Utilities (usage charge) | 152300 | 129200 | 23100 | U |
Total variable expense | 624400 | 608000 | 16400 | U |
Fixed expense | ||||
Supervisor salaries | 336000 | 320000 | 16000 | U |
Factory insurance | 64600 | 64000 | 600 | U |
Utilities (base charge) | 179000 | 160000 | 19000 | U |
Total fixed expense | 579600 | 544000 | 35600 | U |
Total manufacturing expense | 1204000 | 1152000 | 52000 | U |
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