You have just been hired by FAB Corporation, the manufacturer of a revolutionary

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You have just been hired by FAB Corporation, the manufacturer of a revolutionary new garage door opening device. The president has asked that you review the company's costing system and "do what you can to help us get better control of our manufacturing overhead costs." You find that the company has never used a flexible budget, and you suggest that preparing such a budget would be an excellent first step in overhead planning and control. After much effort and analysis, you determined the following cost formulas and gathered the following actual cost data for March Actual Cost in Cost Formula rc $20,600 plus $e.1e per machine-hour $40,000 plus $1.60 per Utilities 24,200 78,100 8,400 49,60 71,500 Maintenance machine-hour $0.30 per machine-hour Supplies Indirect $130,000 plus $0.79 per labor machine hour Depreciation $70,000 During March, the company worked 26,000 machine-hours and produced 15,000 units. The company had originally planned to work 30,000 machine-hours during March. Required 1. Calculate the activity variances for March 2. Calculate the spending variances for March. 421 PM 820

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1) Activity variance :

2) Spending variance :

Utilities 400 F Maintenance 6400 F Supplies 1200 F Indirect labour 2800 F Depreciation None Total 10800 F

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