Analyzing underapplied or overapplied overhead. The New Britain Company uses the direct labor hours method for applying
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Analyzing underapplied or overapplied overhead. The New Britain Company uses the direct labor hours method for applying overhead. The overhead application rate for 19X8 is $8.60 per hour, based on expected fixed costs of $348,000 and expected variable costs of $684,000 with a total volume of 120,000 hours.
During the year, the company actually operated for 115,800 hours, incurring fixed overhead of $348,000 and variable overhead of $637,880.
Instructions 1. Compute the total underapplied or overapplied overhead for the year.
2. Analyze the total overapplied or underapplied overhead into a volume variance and a spending variance.
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Cost Accounting Principles And Applications
ISBN: 9780070081529
5th Edition
Authors: Horace R. Brock
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