-Refer to the Above Table

question 35

Essay

-Refer to the above table. Suppose both governments offer their respective company a subsidy of $4 (million).

Develop the ability to distinguish between favorable and unfavorable variances and their implications.

Interpret the significance of production volume variances in relation to budgeted and actual production.

Understand how to calculate variable overhead efficiency variances.

Understand how to calculate variable overhead rate variances.

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Definitions:

Activity Rate

The activity rate refers to a predetermined overhead rate used in activity-based costing to allocate costs to products or services based on specific activities.

Predetermined Overhead Rate

A rate calculated before the accounting period begins, used to assign overhead costs to products or job orders based on a relevant activity base such as machine hours or labor hours.

Direct Labor-Hours

The sum of all hours spent by workers who are directly engaged in manufacturing, used as a foundation for distributing labor expenses to products or services.

Traditional Costing

An accounting method that allocates manufacturing overhead costs to products based on volume-related measures, such as labor hours or machine hours.