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Heather's Pillow Company manufactures pillows. The 20X5 operating budget is based on the production of 20,000 pillows with 0.5 machine-hour allowed per pillow. Variable manufacturing overhead is anticipated to be $220,000.

Actual production for 20X5 was 18,000 pillows using 9,500 machine hours. Actual variable costs were $20 per machine hour.

Calculate the variable overhead spending and efficiency variances.

Variable Overhead Variances

In standard costing, the standard cost for variable overhead per unit is usually expressed as a rate per driver unit, and this means that the spending and efficiency part of the total variable overhead variance can be calculated.

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Note that the standard variable overhead cost per machine hour = $220,000 / (20,000 x 0.50 = 10,000) = $22. We calcuate the variable overhead...

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