Ed Widner and Associates is a medium-sized company located near a large metropolitan area in the Midwest. The company manufactures cabinets of mahogany, oak, and other fine woods for use in expensive homes, restaurants, and hotels. Although some of the work is custom, many of the cabinets are a standard size.One such non-custom model is called Luxury Base Frame. Normal production is 1,000 units. Each unit has a direct labor hour standard of 5 hours. Overhead is applied to production based on standard direct labor hours. During the most recent month, only 900 units were produced; 4,500 direct labor hours were allowed for standard production, but only 4,000 hours were used.Standard and actual overhead costs were as follows.

Instructions(a) Determine the overhead application rate.(b) Determine how much overhead was applied to production.(c) Calculate the controllable overhead variance and the overhead volume variance.(d) Decide which overhead variances should be investigated.(e) Discuss causes of the overhead variances. What can management do to improve its performance nextmonth?

Standard Actual (1,000 units) (900 units) $ 12,000 $ 12,300 51,000 22,000 Indirect materials Indirect labor 43,000 (Fixed) Manufacturing supervisors salaries (Fixed) Manufacturing office employees salaries (Fixed) Engineering costs Computer costs Electricity (Fixed) Manufacturing building depreciation (Fixed) Machinery depreciation (Fixed) Trucks and forklift depreciation 22,000 13,000 11,500 27,000 25,000 10,000 2,500 10,000 2,500 8,000 8,000 3,000 1,500 3.000 1,500 Small tools 700 1,400 (Fixed) Insurance (Fixed) Property taxes 500 500 300 300 $143,500 $149,000 Total