Question

Standish Company manufactures consumer products and provided the following information for the month of February:

Units produced 131,000
Standard direct labor hours per unit 0.20
Standard fixed overhead rate (per direct labor hour) $2.50
Budgeted fixed overhead $65,000
Actual fixed overhead costs $68,300
Actual hours worked 26,350

Required:
a. Calculate the fixed overhead spending variance using the formula approach.
b. Calculate the volume variance using the formula approach.

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

The computation is shown below:

a. Fixed overhead Spending Variance is

= Budgeted Fixed Overhead - Actual Fixed overhead

= $65000 - $68300

= - $3300 (unfavorable)

b.

Fixed Overhead Volume Variance is

= (131000 × 0.20 × $2.50) - $65000

=$65500 - $65000

= $500 Favorable

In this way these can be determined