Question

World Company expects to operate at 80% of its productive capacity of 67,500 units per month. At this planned level, the company expects to use 32,400 standard hours of direct labor. Overhead is allocated to products using a predetermined standard rate of 0.600 direct labor hour per unit. At the 80% capacity level, the total budgeted cost includes $68,040 fixed overhead cost and $408,240 variable overhead cost. In the current month, the company incurred $472,000 actual overhead and 29,400 actual labor hours while producing 51,000 units.

Required:
a. Compute the overhead volume variance.
b. Compute the overhead controllable variance.

Answer 1

1. $3,780 Unfavorable

2. $453,600 Overhead controllable variance

Step-by-step explanation:

Req. 1

Fixed Overhead Applied

Fixed OH per DL hr. ($68,040 ÷ $32,400) = 2.1

Standard DL hours = 0.60 * $51,000 = $30,600

Fixed OH applied = 2.1 * $30,600 = $64,260

Volume variance.

Total fixed OH applied $64,260

Total budgeted fixed OH $68,040

Fixed OH volume variance $3,780 Unfavorable

Req. 2

Overhead controllable variance.

Total actual overhead $ 472,000

Flexible budget overhead

Variable = $408,240 ÷ $32,400 = 12.6

=> $30,600 * 12.6 = $385,560

Fixed. $68,040

Total $453,600 Overhead controllable variance