Shaw Company produced 860 units. Its overhead allocation base is DLH and its standard amount per allocation base is 8 DLH per unit. Its standard overhead rate is $10 per DLH. The flexible overhead budget at an activity level of 860 units shows $35,000 in variable overhead costs and $39,000 in fixed overhead costs. Compute the volume variance. (Indicate the effect of the variance by selecting favorable, unfavorable, or no 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.
Shaw Company produced 860 units. Its
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