8-23 Overhead variances, service sector. Meals on Wheels (MOW) operates a meal home-delivery ser- vice. It has agreements with 20 restaurants to pick up and deliver meals to customers who phone or fax orders to MOW. MOW allocates variable and fixed overhead costs on the basis of delivery time. MOW's owner, Josh Carter, obtains the following information for May overhead costs: Meals on Wheels (May) Output units (number of deliveries) Hours per delivery Hours of delivery time Variable overhead cost per hour of delivery time Variable overhead costs Fixed overhead costs Actual Results 8,800 5,720 $10,296 $38,600 Static Budget 10,000 0.70 $1.50 $35,000 Required 1. Calculate rate and efficiency variances for MOW's variable overhead in May. 2. Calculate the rate variance and production-volume variance for MOW's fixed overhead in May. 3. Comment on MOW's overhead variances, and suggest how Josh Carter might manage MOW's variable overhead differently from its fixed overhead costs.
Variance Analysis
In layman's terms, variance analysis is an analysis of a difference between planned and actual behavior. Variance analysis is mainly used by the companies to maintain a control over a business. After analyzing differences, companies find the reasons for the variance so that the necessary steps should be taken to correct that variance.
Standard Costing
The standard cost system is the expected cost per unit product manufactured and it helps in estimating the deviations and controlling them as well as fixing the selling price of the product. For example, it helps to plan the cost for the coming year on the various expenses.
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