Cullumber Company produces one product, a putter called GO-Putter. Cullumber uses a standard cost system and determines that it should take one hour of direct labor to produce one GO-Putter. The normal production capacity for this putter is 100,000 units per year. The total budgeted overhead at normal capacity is $850,000 comprised of $300,000 of variable costs and $550,000 of fixed costs. Cullumber applies overhead on the basis of direct labor hours. During the current year, Cullumber produced 81,800 putters, worked 97,800 direct labor hours, and incurred variable overhead costs of $273,825 and fixed overhead costs of $442,300.
a. Compute the applied overhead for Byrd for the year
b. Compute the total overhead variance.