The cheque-clearing office of Pay Loans Company is responsible for processing all cheques that come to the company for payment. Managers at the company believe that variable overhead costs are essentially proportional to the number of labour-hours worked in the office, so labour-hours are used as the activity base when preparing variable overhead budgets and performance reports. Data for October, the most recent month, appear below: Budgeted labour-hours Actual labour-hours Standard labour-hours allowed for the actual number of cheques processed Variable overhead costs office supplies Staff coffee lounge Indirect labour Total variable overhead cost Cost Formula (per labour- hour) $ 1.60 0.4 3.20 $ 5.20 Actual Costs Incurred. in October $2,074 584 3,600 $6,258 1,430 1,335 1,450 Fixed overhead at Pay Loans Company consists entirely of supervisory salaries and is applied at a rate of $4 per direct labour-hour. Actual fixed overhead costs totalled $4,400 in October, while the flexible budget was $4,000 for the month. Required: Prepare an overhead performance report for October for the cheque-clearing office that includes both spending and efficiency variances for variable overhead and the budget variance for fixed overhead. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favourable, "U" for unfavourable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance).)
The cheque-clearing office of Pay Loans Company is responsible for processing all cheques that come to the company for payment. Managers at the company believe that variable overhead costs are essentially proportional to the number of labour-hours worked in the office, so labour-hours are used as the activity base when preparing variable overhead budgets and performance reports. Data for October, the most recent month, appear below: Budgeted labour-hours Actual labour-hours Standard labour-hours allowed for the actual number of cheques processed Variable overhead costs office supplies Staff coffee lounge Indirect labour Total variable overhead cost Cost Formula (per labour- hour) $ 1.60 0.4 3.20 $ 5.20 Actual Costs Incurred. in October $2,074 584 3,600 $6,258 1,430 1,335 1,450 Fixed overhead at Pay Loans Company consists entirely of supervisory salaries and is applied at a rate of $4 per direct labour-hour. Actual fixed overhead costs totalled $4,400 in October, while the flexible budget was $4,000 for the month. Required: Prepare an overhead performance report for October for the cheque-clearing office that includes both spending and efficiency variances for variable overhead and the budget variance for fixed overhead. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favourable, "U" for unfavourable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance).)
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Transcribed Image Text:Overhead costs
Variable overhead costs:
Office supplies
Staff coffee lounge
Indirect labour
Total variable overhead cost
Fixed overhead costs
salaries
Supervisory
Total overhead cost
Cost
Formula
(per labour-
hour)
$
S
Actual Costs
Incurred for
1,335 Labour-
Hours
1.60 $
0.40
3.20
5.20 $
2,074
584
3,600
6,258
4,400
$ 10,658
PAY LOANS COMPANY
Overhead Performance Report
For the Month Ended October 31
Flexible
Budget Based
ON/1,335
Labour-Hours
Flexible
Budget Based
on 1,450
Labour-Hours
Total Variance
Breakdown of the Total Variance
Spending (Budget)
Variance
Efficiency Variance
Transcribed Image Text:The cheque-clearing office of Pay Loans Company is responsible for processing all cheques that come to the company for payment.
Managers at the company believe that variable overhead costs are essentially proportional to the number of labour-hours worked in
the office, so labour-hours are used as the activity base when preparing variable overhead budgets and performance reports. Data for
October, the most recent month, appear below:
Budgeted labour-hours
Actual labour-hours
Standard labour-hours allowed for the actual number of cheques processed
Variable overhead costs:
office supplies
Staff coffee lounge
Indirect labour
Total variable overhead cost
Cost
Formula
(per
labour-
hour)
$ 1.60
0.4
3.20
$ 5.20
Actual
Costs
Incurred.
in
October
$2,074
584
3,600
$6,258
1,430
1,335
1,450
Fixed overhead at Pay Loans Company consists entirely of supervisory salaries and is applied at a rate of $4 per direct labour-hour.
Actual fixed overhead costs totalled $4,400 in October, while the flexible budget was $4,000 for the month.
Required.
Prepare an overhead performance report for October for the cheque-clearing office that includes both spending and efficiency
variances for variable overhead and the budget variance for fixed overhead. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for
favourable, "U" for unfavourable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance).)
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