Brown Company Makes Watches

question 122

Essay

Brown Company makes watches. The budgeted fixed overhead costs for 2012 total $324,000. The company uses direct labour-hours for fixed overhead allocation and anticipates 10,800 hours during the year for 540,000 units. An equal number of units are budgeted for each month.
During October, 48,000 watches were produced and $28,000 was spent on fixed overhead.
Required:
a. Determine the fixed overhead rate for 2012 based on the units of input.
b. Determine the fixed overhead static-budget variance for October.
c. Determine the production-volume overhead variance for October.

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