Question: World Company expects to operate at 90% of its productive capacity of 23,000 units per month. At this planned level, the company expects to use 12,420 standard hours of direct labor. Overhead is allocated to products using a predetermined standard rate based on direct labor hours. At the 90% capacity level, the total budgeted cost includes $37,260 fixed overhead cost and $99,360 variable overhead cost. In the current month, the company incurred $208,300 actual overhead and 11,970 actual labor hours while producing 30,500 units.
1. Compute the overhead application rate for total overhead.
2. Compute the total overhead variance.