Managerial Accounting
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ISBN: 9780078025631
Author: Ray H Garrison, Eric Noreen, Peter C. Brewer Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 9, Problem 6F15
Adger Corporation is a service company that measures its output based on the number of customers served. The company provided the following fixed and variable cost estimates that it uses for budgeting purposes and the actual results for May as shown below:
When preparing its planning budget the company estimated that it would serve 30 customers per month: however, during May the company actually served 35 customers.
Required (all computations pertain to the month of May):
6. What is Adger’s revenue variance?
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Variable Element per Customer Served
Actual Totalfor May
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When preparing its planning budget the company estimated that it would serve 30 customers per month; however, during May the company actually served 35 customers.
Questions:
A. What activity variance would Adger report in May with respect to its revenue? (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive values.)
B. What activity variances would Adger…
Chapter 9 Solutions
Managerial Accounting
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EXERCISE 9-3 Revenue and Spending Variances...Ch. 9 - Prob. 4ECh. 9 - Prob. 5ECh. 9 - EXERCISE 9-6 Critique a Variance ReportLO9-6 The...Ch. 9 - Prob. 7ECh. 9 - EXERCISE 9-8 Flexible Budgets and Activity...Ch. 9 - Fixed Cost...Ch. 9 - ...Ch. 9 -
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EXERCISE 9-14 Prepare a Flexible Budget...Ch. 9 - Prob. 15ECh. 9 -
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