A Favourable Variable Manufacturing Overhead Efficiency Variance May Be Interpreted

question 38

Multiple Choice

A favourable variable manufacturing overhead efficiency variance may be interpreted as meaning which of the following?

• A) Employees used too much electricity during production.
• B) Less maintenance was required than expected.
• C) Excess supplies were used.
• D) Too much of the cost driver was used.
• E) The cost driver is inappropriate.

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Definitions:

Environmentally Induced

Conditions or changes in an organism that are caused by external environmental factors rather than genetic influences.

Failure To Thrive Syndrome

A medical condition, often seen in infants, characterized by a failure to gain weight and grow as expected for age and sex.

Nutrition

The process by which organisms take in and utilize food materials, essential for growth, repair, and maintenance of health.

Canalization

A genetic concept explaining how genotype restrictions lead to predetermined phenotypic outcomes despite environmental variations.