Use the Following Information for the Next 3 Questions

question 34

Multiple Choice

Use the following information for the next 3 questions.
Anacortes, Inc. uses a standard cost system. At the beginning of the year, it budgeted $50,000 for fixed overhead. The estimated variable overhead allocation rate was $3.30 per machine hour, and machine hours is the cost allocation base for both variable and fixed overhead. The static budget was based on 16,000 units of production and sales, and each unit was expected to use 2.5 machine hours. Actual total overhead was $170,000, and Anacortes produced and sold 15,000 units during the year. Actual machine hours for the year were 36,000.
-The combined fixed and variable spending variance was

• A) $4,950 favorable
• B) $3,750 favorable
• C) $1,200 unfavorable
• D) $3,125 unfavorable

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Definitions:

Prepaid Insurance

An asset account that reflects the amount of insurance premiums that have been paid in advance and are gradually recognized as an expense over the coverage period of the policy.

Adjusting Entry

A journal entry made in accounting records at the end of an accounting period to allocate income and expenditure to the period in which they actually occurred.

Year 1

Refers to the first year of operation for a business or the first year of a specific reporting period.

Contra-asset

A contra-asset account is a type of asset account where its balance is a negative figure that offsets the balance of its corresponding asset account.