In: Accounting
Ricardo (Pvt) Ltd manufactures a single product which a standard cost of $80 made up as follows:
Direct materials: $
15 square meters @ $3/m2 45
Direct labour 5 hours @ $4/hr. 20
Variable overheads 5hr @ $2/hr 10
Fixed overheads 5 hr @ $1/hr 5
$80
The standard selling price of the product is $100 per unit. The monthly budget projects production and sales of 1 000 units.
Actual figures for the month of April are as follows:
Sales 1 200 units at @ $102
Production 1 400 units
Direct materials 22 000m2 at $4/m2
Direct wages 6 800 hours at $5
Variable overheads $11 000
Fixed overheads $6 000
Required calculate the following variance
Fixed overhead cost variance
Fixed overhead expenditure variance
Fixed overhead volume variance
Fixed overhead capacity variance and Fixed overhead efficiency variance
1. Budgeted hours = Budgeted units x number of hours per unit
= 1000 units x 5 hours per unit
= 5000 hours
2. Actual hours (given) = 6800 hours
3. Standard hours = Expected time for actual output
= Actual units produced x budgeted number of hours per unit
= 1400 units x 5 hours per unit
= 7000 hours
4. Budgeted overheads = Budgeted hours x fixed overhead recovery rate
= 5000 hrs x $1 per hour
= $5000
5. Actual overheads (given) = $6000
6. Standard overheads = Standard hours x fixed overhead recovery rate
= 7000 hours x $1 per hour
= $7000
i. Fixed overhead cost variance = Standard overhead - Actual overhead
= $7000 - $6000
= $1000 (F)
ii. Fixed overhead expenditure variance = Budgeted overheads - Actual overheads
= $5000 - $6000
= $1000 (U)
iii. Fixed overhead volume variance = Standard overheads - Budgeted overheads
= $7000 - $5000
= $2000 (F)
iv. Fixed overhead capacity variance = ( Actual hours - Budgeted hours ) x Fixed overhead recovery rate
= (6800 - 5000) x $ 1 per hour
= $1800 (F)
Fixed overhead efficiency variance = ( Standard hour - Actual hour ) x Fixed overhead recovery rate
= ( 7000 - 6800 ) x $1 per hour
= $ 200 (F)