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The SourdoughSourdough Bread Company bakes baguettes for distribution to upscale grocery stores. The company has...

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Accounting

The

SourdoughSourdough

Bread Company bakes baguettes for distribution to upscale grocery stores. The company has two direct-cost categories: direct materials and direct manufacturing labor. Variable manufacturing overhead is allocated to products on the basis of standard direct manufacturing labor-hours. Following is some budget data for the

SourdoughSourdough

Bread Company:

Direct manufacturing labor use

0.02

hours per baguette

Variable manufacturing overhead

$10.00

per direct manufacturing labor-hour

The

SourdoughSourdough

Bread Company provides the following additional data for the year ended December 31,

20172017:

Planned (budgeted) output

3,100,000

baguettes

Actual production

2,600,000

baguettes

Direct manufacturing labor

46,800

hours

Actual variable manufacturing overhead

$617,760

1.

What is the denominator level used for allocating variable manufacturingoverhead? (That is, for how many direct manufacturing labor-hours is

SourdoughSourdough

Bread budgeting?)

2.

Prepare a variance analysis of variable manufacturing overhead.

3.

Discuss the variances you have calculated and give possible explanations for them.

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