A firm uses machine hours to allocate fixed overhead. During the period, budgeted fixed overhead is Rs. 30000. The budgeted machine hours is 100 hours for budgeted volume of 1000 units. The firm produced 1200 units consuming 150 hours and spent Rs. 28000 towards fixed overhead. The fixed overhead spending variance is Rs. 17000 favorable Rs. 17000 adverse Rs. 2000 favorable Rs. 8000 favorable
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.
A firm uses machine hours to allocate fixed
The fixed overhead spending variance refers to the differentiation among the the actual fixed production overhead expenditure or spending (AFPOE) and the budgeted fixed production overhead expenditure or spending (BFPOE).
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