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The distribution of manufacturing overhead costs to individual product unit, or production batches generally, requires a base or a cost driver, to which reference a rate, known as material burden rate applies. Material burden is the amount of manufacturing overhead costs that a unit of the base carries.
1 Fiber Optic, Inc., investigates all variances above 10 percent of the flexible budget. 2  The flexible budget for direct materials is $50,000. 3  The direct materials price variance is $4,000 unfavorable and the direct materials quantity variance is $(6,000) favorable. Assuming a standard price of $5 per yard, prepare a journal entry to record the purchase of raw materials for the month. 2  The company used 39,000 yards of material in production for the month, and the flexible budget shows the company expected to use 40,800 yards.