The following information is for the standard and actual costs for the Happy Corporation. Standard Costs: Budgeted units of production - 16,000 (80% of capacity) Standard labor hours per unit - 4 Standard labor rate - $26 per hour Standard material per unit - 8 lbs. Standard material cost - $ 12 per pound Standard variable overhead rate - $15 per labor hour Budgeted fixed overhead - $640,000 Fixed overhead rate is based on budgeted labor hours at 80% capacity. Actual Cost: Actual production - 16,500 units Actual material purchased and used - 130,000 pounds Actual total material cost - $1,600,000 Actual labor - 65,000 hours Actual total labor costs - $1,700,000 Actual variable overhead - $1,000,000 Actual fixed overhead - $640,000 Determine: (a) the direct materials quantity variance, price variance, and total cost variance; (b) the direct labor time variance, rate variance, and total cost variance; and (c) the factory overhead volume variance, controllable variance, and total factory overhead cost variance.
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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