Layt Clock Company has developed the following flexible budget for its overhead
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Layt Clock Company has developed the following flexible budget for its overhead costs. The standard hours allowed per unit is 1.2 hours. Manufacturing overhead at Layt is applied to production on the basis of standard machine-hours:
Budget Information
Machine Hours
26,400
Clocks produced..................
22,000
Variable overhead cost per machine hour (standard) ..
$5.90
Fixed overhead cost per unit per machine hours (standard)
$6.48
Total Fixed overhead cost....
$171,072
The actual results for the year were as follows:
Number of clocks produced..........
21,500
Machine-hours incurred.................
24,940
Variable overhead cost..................
$145,899
Fixed overhead cost......................
$170,540
Required:
Compute Variable Overhead Rate Variance.
Compute Variable Overhead Efficiency Variance.
Compute Fixed Overhead Budget Variance.
Compute Fixed Overhead Volume Variance.
Budget Information
Machine Hours
26,400
Clocks produced..................
22,000
Variable overhead cost per machine hour (standard) ..
$5.90
Fixed overhead cost per unit per machine hours (standard)
$6.48
Total Fixed overhead cost....
$171,072
Explanation / Answer
The Variances can be computed as follows:
Variable overhead Rate variance
=(Standard rate per unit-Actual rate per unit)*Actual HOurs
=(5.9-145899/24940)*24940
=$1247(Favourable)
Variable Overhead Efficiency Variance
=(Standard hours-Actual Hours)*Standard rate per hour
=(26400-24940)*5.9
=$8614(Favourable)
3)Fixed Overhead Budget Variance=Budget cost-Actual cost
=171072-170540
=$532(Favourable)
4)Fixed Overhead Volume Variance.=(Actual output-Budgeted output)*Standard rate
=(21500-22000)*7.776
=$3888(Unfavourable)
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