Accounting: What the Numbers Mean
Accounting: What the Numbers Mean
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ISBN: 9781259535314
Author: David Marshall, Wayne William McManus, Daniel Viele
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 15, Problem 15.23P

Problem 15.23

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Fixed overhead variances-various issues Silverstone’s production budget for July called for making 40,000 units of a single product. The firm’s production standards allow one-half of a machine hour per unit produced. The fixed overhead budget for July was $36,000. Silverstone uses an absorption costing system. Actual activity and costs for July were:

    Units produced 39,000
    Fixed overhead costs incurred $37,000

Required:

  1. Calculate the predetermined fixed overhead application rate per machine hour that would be used in July.
  2. Calculate the number of machine hours that would be allowed for actual July production.
  3. Calculate the fixed overhead applied to work in process during July.
  4. Calculate the over- or underapplied fixed overhead for July.
  5. Calculate the fixed overhead budget and volume variances for July.

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