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Bluecap Co. uses a standard cost system and flexible budgets for control purposes. The following budgeted information pertains to 2019:
Denominator volumenumber of units
7,000
Denominator volumepercent of capacity
70
%
Denominator volumestandard direct labor hours (DLHs)
42,000
Budgeted variable factory overhead cost at denominator volume
$
102,200
Total standard factory overhead rate per DLH
$
15.10
During 2019, Bluecap worked 53,000 DLHs and manufactured 9,300 units. The actual factory overhead cost for the year was $11,000 greater than the flexible budget amount for the units produced, of which $7,000 was due to fixed factory overhead. In preparing a budget for 2020 Bluecap decided to raise the level of operation to 90% of capacity (a level it considers to be "practical capacity"), to manufacture 8,700 units at a budgeted total of 26,100 DLHs. The total overhead variance in 2019 for Bluecap Co., to the nearest whole dollar, was: (Round your intermediate calculation to 2 decimal places.)
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$11,000 unfavorable.
$141,046 favorable.
$143,286 favorable.
$163,846 favorable.
$163,846 unfavorable.
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