Factory Overhead Cost Variances

Perma Weave Textiles Corporation began January with a budget for 24,000 hours of production in the Weaving Department. The department has a full capacity of 32,000 hours under normal business conditions. The budgeted overhead at the planned volumes at the beginning of January was as follows:

Variable overhead	$79,200
Fixed overhead	54,400
Total	$133,600

The actual factory overhead was $135,200 for January. The actual fixed factory overhead was as budgeted. During January, the Weaving Department had standard hours at actual production volume of 25,000 hours. Enter a favorable variance as a negative number using a minus sign and an unfavorable variance as a positive number. Round your interim computations to the nearest cent, if required.

a. Determine the variable factory overhead controllable variance. $ Favorable

b. Determine the fixed factory overhead volume variance. $ Unfavorable

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