Example: Adler Company budgeted the following amounts at the beginning of the year:

Units		150,000
Direct labor hours		15,000
Variable overhead		$30,000
Fixed overhead		$69,000

At the end of the year, Adler provided the following actual data:

Units		140,000
Direct labor hours		14,300
Variable overhead		$27,600
Fixed overhead		$70,000

Adler Company's variable overhead rate is $ 2 per direct labor hour; fixed overhead rate is $ 4.60per direct labor hour; and total overhead rate is $6.60 per direct labor hour.

The standard hours for actual production equal 14,000 direct labor hours. Fill in the following table, being sure to select the appropriate direction for the variance (Favorable or Unfavorable). Enter all amounts as positive numbers.

Please answer the last question: "suppose Alder company had made 15,200 units. The volume variance would have been is _____ Favorable.

This is all that was given. Assume hours?

The standard hours for actual production equa14,000direct labor hours. Fill in the following table, being sure to select the appropriate direction for the variance (Favorable or Unfavorable). Enter all amounts as positive numbers. Actual Applied 28,000 64,400 Variance Variable overhead Favorable 5,600Unfavorable Fixed overhead 70,000 Total overhead 97,60092,4005,200 Unfavorable Next, we can break down the total variable overhead variance into the spending and efficiency variances Variable overhead spending variance = $27,600-($2 x 14,300) $27,600-$28,600 = $1,000 Favorable The variable overhead spending variance tells us that Adler spent $1,000 less than expected on variable overhead Variable overhead efficiency variance ($2 14,300)-($2 14,000) = $28,600-$28,000 s600 unfavorable The variable overhead efficiency variance shows the impact of working morehours than standard for the actual production of 140,000 units. This resulted in $600 variable overhead than standard We can see that the sum of the variable overhead spending variance and the variable overhead efficiency variance does equal the total variable overhead variance ($1,000 Favorable $600 Unfavorable $400 Favorable) The fixed overhead variances are the fixed overhead spending variance and the fixed overhead volume variance. The fixed overhead spending variance compares actual fixed overhead with budgeted fixed overhead. Remember, fixed overhead is fixed, it does not depend on the number of units produced or the number of direct labor hours worked Fixed overhead spending varianceActual fixed overhead Budgeted fixed overhead Fixed overhead spending variance$70,000 $69,000$1,000 Unfavorable Thus, $1,000 more as spent on fixed overhead items than was budgeted The volume variance occurs when actual production does not equal budgeted production. This is because fixed overhead is applied to production using standard direct labor hours allowed for actual production. If more units are produced than planned, there will be more standard direct labor hours and more fixed overhead applied to production. On the other hand, if fewer units are produced than planned, then there are fewer units over which to spread the budgeted fixed overhead Fixed overhead volume variance Budgeted fixed overhead-(Fixed overhead rate x Standard hours) Fixed overhead volume variance $69,000-($4.60 x 14,000) s69,000-$64,400 = $4,600 unfavorable The overhead fixed overhead variance is $5,600 underapplied (or unfavorable). This is composed of the $1,000 Unfavorable fixed overhead spending variance and the 54,600 Unfavorable volume variance Suppose Adler Company had made 15,200 units. The volume variance would have been is Favorable