Question

Oriole Company uses flexible budgets. At normal capacity of 15000 units, budgeted manufacturing overhead is $120000 variable and $360000 fixed. If Oriole had actual overhead costs of $483000 for 18000 units produced, what is the difference between actual and budgeted costs

Answer 1

$21,000 favorable

Step-by-step explanation:

Given the above information,

Variable overhead rate = $120,000 / 15 units

= $8

Overhead variance = Real - Allocated

= $483,000 - (8 × 18,000 + $360,000 )

= $483,000 - $504,000

= $21,000 favorable