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Variance

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  • July 8, 2020 at 2:50 am #576287
    terab
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    Suppose that a company plans to produce 1,000 units of product E during August 20X3. The expected
    time to produce a unit of E is five hours, and the budgeted fixed overhead is $20,000. The standard
    fixed overhead cost per unit of product E will therefore be as follows.
    5 hours at $4 per hour = $20 per unit
    Actual fixed overhead expenditure in August 20X3 turns out to be $20,450. The labour force manages
    to produce 1,100 units of product E in 5,400 hours of work.

    Hi sir,

    I was practicing this question and the workings showed that we need to divide 20,000 / 1000. Is this to calculate OAR? Since its budgeted overhead / planned activity?

    Thanks 🙂

    July 8, 2020 at 2:53 am #576288
    terab
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    Also sir, OAR is only used in fixed o/h and not variable o/. Is this right?

    Thanks again 🙂

    July 8, 2020 at 9:21 am #576309
    John Moffat
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    The OAR is only relevant for fixed production overheads and is always calculated using the budgeted overheads and the budgeted production.

    I do explain this in my free lectures. The lectures are a complete free course for Paper MA and cover everything needed to be able to pass the exam well.

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