Underfoot Products Uses Standard Costing Compute the Variable Overhead Spending Variance

question 10

Multiple Choice

Underfoot Products uses standard costing.The following information about overhead was generated during May: $$\begin{array} { l l } \text { Standard variable overhead rate } & \$ 2 \text { per machine howr } \\\text { Standard fixed overhead rate } & \$ 1 \text { per machine hour } \\\text { Actual variable overhead costs } & \$ 389,000 \\\text { Actual Eixed dverhead costs } & \$ 175,000 \\\text { Budgeted fixed overhead costs } & \$ 190,000 \\\text { Standard machine hours per urit produced } & 10 \\\text { Good urits produced } & 18,000 \\\text { Actual machine hours } & 200,000\end{array}$$
Compute the variable overhead spending variance.

• A) $11,000 (F)
• B) $11,000 (U)
• C) $31,000 (F)
• D) $41,000 (F)

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