A company’s over absorbed overhead for a period is £4,000. The budgeted hours for the period was 40,000hours and the budgeted overhead cost for the same period had been £160,000. If the actual hours worked are 45,000hours, showing your workings, calculate the actual overhead cost incurred.
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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