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The Claus Corporation makes and sells a single product and uses standard costing

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Question

The Claus Corporation makes and sells a single product and uses standard costing. During January, the company actually used 8,700 direct labor-hours (DLHs) and produced 3,000 units of product. The standard cost card for one unit of product includes the following:

Variable factory overhead: 3.0 DLHs @ $4.00 per DLH.
Fixed factory overhead: 3.0 DLHs @ $3.50 per DLH.

For January, the company incurred $22,000 of actual fixed manufacturing overhead costs and recorded a $875 favorable volume variance.

The fixed manufacturing overhead cost used to compute the predetermined overhead rate was:

$31,500

$30,625

$32,375

$33,250

Please show all work

$31,500

$30,625

$32,375

$33,250

Please show all work

Explanation / Answer

PREDETERMINED FIXED MANUFACTURING OVERHEAD RATE

= TOTAL PREDETERMINED FIXED OVERHEAD / PREDETERMINED DIRECT LABOUR HOUR

$3.5 = TOTAL PREDETERMINED FIXED OVERHEAD / (3000 * 3)

TOTAL PREDETERMINED FIXED OVERHEAD = 9000 * $3.5

= $31500