Question
Monty Manufacturing builds playground equipment that it sells to elementary schools and municipalities. Monty's management has contracted you to perform a variance analysis on the fixed manufacturing overhead for its line of slides. Monty's cost accounting team informs you that it allocates fixed overhead based on machine hours. This period production was budgeted at 35 0 slides
. Budgeted and actual production data follows:
Standard fixed overhead cost per machine hour $5.00
Standard machine hours per slide 9
Actual production 390
Actual fixed overhead cost $20,000
What is the fixed manufacturing overhead volume variance in this period?
Answer:
Fixed overhead volume variance $1800 Favorable
Explanation:
Standard fixed cost per unit = cost per hour × standard hours
= $5.00 ×9 = $45
Units
Budgeted production unit 350
Actual production unit 390
Volume variance in (units) 40
Standard fixed over cost per unit × $45
Fixed overhead volume variance 1800 Favorable
Fixed overhead volume variance $1800 Favorable
