Dull Corporation Applies Overhead to Products Based on Machine-Hours

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Essay

Dull Corporation applies overhead to products based on machine-hours.The denominator level of activity is 8,600 machine-hours.The budgeted fixed manufacturing overhead costs are $286,380.In October,the actual fixed manufacturing overhead costs were $274,330 and the standard machine-hours allowed for the actual output were 8,400 machine-hours.
Required:
a.Compute the budget variance for October.Show your work!
b.Compute the volume variance for October.Show your work!

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Definitions:

Seasonal Factor

A quantitative adjustment factor applied to economic or statistical data to account for seasonal variations of the data point.

Exponential Smoothing

A forecasting technique that applies decreasing weights to past observations as they recede in time.

Exponential Smoothing Model

A time series forecasting technique that applies weighting factors which decrease exponentially to past observations.

Mean Absolute Percentage Error

A measure used in statistics to assess the accuracy of a forecast or prediction, calculated as the average of absolute percentages of errors between predicted and observed values.