The Alphonse Company allocates fixed overhead costs by machine
hours and variable overhead costs by direct labor hours. At the
beginning of the year the company expects fixed overhead costs to
be $600,000 and variable costs to be $800,000. The expected machine
hours are 6,000 and the expected direct labor hours are 80,000. The
actual fixed overhead costs are $700,000 and the actual variable
overhead costs are $750,000. The actual machine hours during the
year are 5,500 and the actual direct labor hours are 90,000.