Acuff Corporation applies manufacturing overhead to products on
the basis of standard machine-hours. Budgeted and actual overhead
costs for the most recent month appear below:
Original Budget | Actual Costs | |||||
Fixed overhead costs: | ||||||
Supervision | $ | 15,600 | $ | 15,950 | ||
Utilities | 5,000 | 5,070 | ||||
Factory depreciation | 6,800 | 6,700 | ||||
Total overhead cost | $ | 27,400 | $ | 27,720 | ||
The company based its original budget on 6,200 machine-hours. The
company actually worked 6,560 machine-hours during the month. The
standard hours allowed for the actual output of the month totaled
6,420 machine-hours. What was the overall fixed manufacturing
overhead budget variance for the month?
$972 Unfavorable
Fixed Overhead manufacturing variance | Actual Fixed Ovehead - Absorbed Fixed Overhead | |
Fixed Overhead absorption rate | Budgeted fixed Overhead/Budgeted Hour | |
Fixed Overhead absorption rate | 27400/6200 | |
Fixed Overhead absorption rate | 4.4 | |
Fixed Overhead manufacturing variance | 27720 - 6420*4.4 | |
Fixed Overhead manufacturing variance | 528 | Favorable |
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