Question

Dinham Kennel uses tenant-days as its measure of activity; an animal housed in the kennel for one day is counted as one tenant-day. During March, the kennel budgeted for 4,600 tenant-days, but its actual level of activity was 4,670 tenant-days. The kennel has provided the following data concerning the formulas used in its budgeting and its actual results for March:

Data used in budgeting:

	Fixed element per month			Variable element per tenant-day
Revenue		-		$	35.10
Wages and salaries	$	3,500		$	8.50
Food and supplies		1,000			15.00
Facility expenses		9,000			4.00
Administrative expenses		7,500			0.40
Total expenses	$	21,000		$	27.90

Actual results for March:

Revenue	$	143,330
Wages and salaries	$	28,650
Food and supplies	$	71,345
Facility expenses	$	27,130
Administrative expenses	$	7,105

The overall revenue and spending variance (i.e., the variance for net operating income in the revenue and spending variance column on the flexible budget performance report) for March would be closest to:

Garrison 16e Rechecks 2018-08-12

Multiple Choice

• $3,020 F

• $3,524 F

• $3,020 U

• $3,524 U

Answer 1

	Actual	Flexible budget
Revenue	143330	163917	=4670*35.1
Expenses:
Wages and salaries	28650	43195	=3500+(4670*8.5)
Food and supplies	71345	71050	=1000+(4670*15)
Facility expenses	27130	27680	=9000+(4670*4)
Administrative expenses	7105	9368	=7500+(4670*0.4)
Total Expenses	134230	151293
Net operating income	9100	12624
Overall revenue and spending variance	3524	U	=12624-9100
Option D $3,524 U is correct