Apollo Company uses a standard cost system for manufacturing its single product, called Zoom. Company assigns factory overhead cost using predetermined overhead rates based on machine hours. The following data are available for current year: Standards per unit of product for planned production of 33,000 units: Budgeted machine hours Raw materials Direct labor Variable overhead Fixed overhead Actual units produced Actual price per pound of materials (A) WIP Inventory DM Quantity 66,000 hours Variance 4.40 pounds at $10.20 per pound 1.4 hours at $13.50 per hour 2 MH at $5.40 per machine hour 2 MH at $6.00 per machine hour 32,800 units Apollo used 137,760 pounds of raw materials for production of 32,800 units. Whic of the following journal entries should be used to record this transaction? $10.50 Debit 1,472,064 Credit 66,912
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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