Maxwell Company uses a standard cost accounting system and applies production overhead to products on the basis of machine hours. The following information is available for the year just ended: Standard variable-overhead rate per hour: $7.30 Standard fixed-overhead rate per hour: $12.60 Planned activity during the period: 20,000 machine hours Actual production: 12,700 finished units Machine-hour standard: Two completed units per machine hour Actual variable overhead: $164,500 Actual total overhead: $462,950 Actual machine hours worked: 23,500 Required: 1. Calculate the budgeted fixed overhead for the year. 2. Compute the variable-overhead spending variance. 3. Calculate the company's fixed-overhead volume variance. 4-a. Did MaYwell
Maxwell Company uses a standard cost accounting system and applies production overhead to products on the basis of machine hours. The following information is available for the year just ended: Standard variable-overhead rate per hour: $7.30 Standard fixed-overhead rate per hour: $12.60 Planned activity during the period: 20,000 machine hours Actual production: 12,700 finished units Machine-hour standard: Two completed units per machine hour Actual variable overhead: $164,500 Actual total overhead: $462,950 Actual machine hours worked: 23,500 Required: 1. Calculate the budgeted fixed overhead for the year. 2. Compute the variable-overhead spending variance. 3. Calculate the company's fixed-overhead volume variance. 4-a. Did MaYwell
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Transcribed Image Text:Maxwell Company uses a standard cost accounting system and applies production overhead to products on the basis of machine
hours. The following information is available for the year just ended:
Standard variable-overhead rate per hour: $7.30
Standard fixed-overhead rate per hour: $12.60
Planned activity during the period: 20,000 machine hours
Actual production: 12,700 finished units
Machine-hour standard: Two completed units per machine hour
Actual variable overhead: $164,500
Actual total overhead: $462,950O
Actual machine hours worked: 23,500
Required:
1. Calculate the budgeted fixed overhead for the year.
2. Compute the variable-overhead spending variance.
3. Calculate the company's fixed-overhead volume variance.
4-a. Did Maxwell spend more or less than anticipated for fixed overhead?
4-b. What was the difference in actual and anticipated overhead?
5. Was variable overhead underapplied or overapplied during the year? By how much?
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