Question

In October, Pine Company reports 20,700 actual direct labor hours, and it incurs $124,200 of manufacturing overhead costs. Standard hours allowed for the work done is 20,700 hours. The predetermined overhead rate is $6.15 per direct labor hour. In addition, the flexible manufacturing overhead budget shows that budgeted costs are $4.45 variable per direct labor hour and $54,000 fixed. Compute the overhead volume variance. Normal capacity was 25,000 direct labor hours.

Answer 1

$18,810 Unfavorable

Step-by-step explanation:

The computation of the overhead volume variance is shown below:-

Overhead volume variance = Budgeted Overheads - Recovered Overheads

= (20,700 × $4.45 + $54,000) - (20,700 × $6.15)

= $92,115 + $54,000) - (20,700 × $6.15)

= $146,115 - $127,305

= $18,810 Unfavorable

Here, the budgeted overhead is more than recovered overhead so it becomes unfavorable.