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What does an unfavorable volume variance indicate?

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Question added by Rehan Qureshi , Financial Consultant , Self Employeed
Date Posted: 2014/01/10
Rehan Qureshi
by Rehan Qureshi , Financial Consultant , Self Employeed

An unfavorable volume variance indicates that the amount of fixed manufacturing overhead costs applied (or assigned) to the manufacturer's output was less than the budgeted or planned amount of fixed manufacturing overhead costs for the same time period. The unfavorable volume variance indicates that period's output was less than the planned output. The volume variance is also referred to as the production volume variance, the capacity variance, or the idle capacity variance. In November2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued its Statement No.151, which discusses the reporting of the fixed production overhead when less than normal capacity is utilized. The FASB's Statements of Financial Accounting Standards are available at no cost at www.FASB.org/st.

Khaled Abdelrehim ACCA DipIFR CMA
by Khaled Abdelrehim ACCA DipIFR CMA , Financial Analysis Assistant General Manager , Khalda Petroleum Company

Producing less than what is indicated in the budget.

Subhranshu Ganguly
by Subhranshu Ganguly , Quality Analyst. , WIPRO

The actual volume of production is less than than budgeted.

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