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- July 2, 2021 at 8:49 am #626835
Good day,
Could you please help to understand the difference between all Actual hours. I’m so confused right now :/So the Question. (Test your understanding 5 – Fixed overhead variances)
Budget
Fixed production overheads $22,960
Units 6,560
The standard time to produce each unit is 2 hoursActual
Fixed production overhead $24,200
Units 6,460
Labour hours 12,600 hoursRequired to calculate:
c. fixed overhead capacity variances
d. fixed overhead efficiency variance
___________1Formula Capacity Variance
-Budgeted hours x SR
-Actual hours x SR
2Formula Efficiency Variance
-Actual hours x SR
-Standard hours x SR
——- Question 1. So, as I can see in the formula 1 and in the formula 2 we should used actual hours (that i believe should be the same for both formulas, however it’s not the case!) how is it possible that actual hours in one case means one thing and in the other case it means completely different hours. So confused.
Answer per book
Standard rate = 1,75 (makes sense)
c. Budg 2x6560x1,75 = $22,960 (makes sense)
Actual 12,600 x 1,75 = $22,050 (ok….going next)
–1240 A
d. Actual 6,460 x 2 x 1,75 = 22,610 (?!!! why it’s suddenly different???)
Standard 12,600 x 1,75 = $22,050 (whaaat, why the standard hours suddenly became the actual hours from the previous calc?!)This doesn’t make sense at all…
Please help me to understand this!July 2, 2021 at 4:15 pm #626846I do not have the Kaplan books (only the BPP Revision Kit).
However either Kaplan have mistyped or you have copied wrongly.
(c) in what you have typed is correct. However (d) is labelled wrongly. The efficiency variance is the difference between the actual hours at standard cost (which is $22,050) and the standard hours for the actual production at standard cost (which is $22,610).
I do suggest that you watch my free lectures on basic variances (although very little of Paper MA variances are asked in Paper PM – is the advanced variances (mix and yield, and planning and operational) that are mainly examined in Paper PM). The lectures are a complete free course for Paper PM and cover everything needed to be able to pass the exam well 🙂
July 5, 2021 at 8:18 am #627001Thank you a lot! Your answer helped me more that the answer from Kaplan book
July 5, 2021 at 1:49 pm #627014You are welcome 🙂
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