Assume That Machine Hours Is the Cost Driver for Overhead

question 11

Multiple Choice

Assume that machine hours is the cost driver for overhead. The difference between the actual variable overhead incurred and the applied variable overhead is the:

• A) volume variance.
• B) production variance.
• C) efficiency variance.
• D) sum of the spending and efficiency variances.
• E) spending variance.

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