Question

Bailey Corporation. incurred 2,300 direct labor hours to produce 600 units of product. Each unit should take 4 direct labor hours. Bailey Corporation applies variable overhead to production on a direct labor hour basis. The variable overhead efficiency variance Select one: a. will be unfavorable. b. will depend upon the capacity measure selected to assign overhead to production. c. will be favorable. d. is impossible to determine without additional information.

Answer 1

Answer: C. will be favorable

Explanation:

Variable overhead efficiency variance simply means the difference between the time that it takes to manufacture a particular product and the time that was budgeted for the product.

Since the time incurred for the product was 2300 hours while the budgeted time was (600 × 4) = 2400 hours, then the variable overhead efficiency variance is favorable.