The Fixed Overhead Volume Variance Always Reveals Underallocated Fixed Overhead

question 68

True/False

The fixed overhead volume variance always reveals underallocated fixed overhead costs.

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Definitions:

Predetermined Overhead Rate

A pre-determined rate used to allocate manufacturing overhead expenses to products, based on a specified activity measure, and calculated prior to the start of a period.

Normal Cost System

A costing system in which overhead costs are applied to a job by multiplying a predetermined overhead rate by the actual amount of the allocation base incurred by the job.

Job Cost Sheet

A document that records the costs associated with a specific job or batch of products, tracking direct labor, direct materials, and applied overhead.

Predetermined Overhead Rate

A rate calculated before a period begins, used to allocate manufacturing overhead costs to cost objects during the period.