Company uses standard costing. The company prepared its static budget for 2018 at 2,500,000 machine hours for the year. Total budgeted overhead cost is $33,500,000. The variable overhead rate is $11 per machine hour ($22 per unit). Actual result for 2018 as follow:

Machine-hours	2,400,000	hours
Output	1,230,000	units
Variable overhead	$27,600,000
Fixed overhead rate variance	$1,350,000	U

1.	Calculate for the fixed overhead:
	a.	Budgeted amount.
	b.	Budgeted cost per machine-hour.
	c.	Actual cost.
	d.	Production-volume variance.
2.	Calculate the variable overhead rate variance and the variable overhead efficiency variance.
3.	Angela AustenAusten, the controller, prepares the variance analysis. It is common knowledge in the company that she and Ronald BerknerBerkner, the production manager, are not on the best of terms. In a recent executive committee meeting, BerknerBerkner had complained about the lack of usefulness of the accounting reports he receives. To get back at him, AustenAusten manipulated the actual fixed overhead amount by assigning a greater-than-normal share of allocated costs to the production area. In addition, she decided to depreciate all of the newly acquired production equipment using the double-declining-balance method rather than the straight-line method, contrary to company practice. As a result, there was a sizable unfavourable fixed overhead rate variance. She boasted to one of her confidants, "I am just returning the favour." Discuss AustenAusten's actions and their ramifications.