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:

Multiple Choice

• $3,020 F

• $3,524 F

• $3,020 U

• $3,524 U

Answer 1

	Budgeted Profit for 4670 Tenant Days
Total Revenue	$35.10*4670	$        163,917
Fixed Cost			$21,000
Variable Cost	$27.90*4670	$        130,293
Budgeted Profit			$          12,624
Actual Profit
Revenue			$143,330
Wages & Salaries			$28,650
Food & Supplies			$71,345
Facility Expenses			$27,130
Administrative Expenses		$7,105
Actual Profit			$9,100
Variance			$            3,524	U
As actual profit is less so it is unfavorable variance for
$3,524	U