Question

Pickrel Corporation is an oil well service company that measures its output by the number of wells serviced. The company has provided the following fixed and variable cost estimates that it uses for budgeting purposes.

	Fixed Element per Month			Variable Element per Well Serviced
Revenue				$	5,500
Employee salaries and wages	$	53,700		$	1,300
Servicing materials				$	600
Other expenses	$	34,400

When the company prepared its planning budget at the beginning of November, it assumed that 27 wells would have been serviced. However, 31 wells were actually serviced during November.

The amount shown for net operating income in the planning budget for November would have been closest to:

Multiple Choice

a) $26,000

b) $23,500

c) $9,100

d) $22,645

Answer 1

Pickrel Corporation
Planning Budget
For the month ended November 30
Budgeted customers served	27
Revenue (27*$5,500)	$ 148,500
Expenses
Employee salaries and wages ($53,700+(27*$1,300))	$    88,800
Servicing materials (27*$600)	$    16,200
Other expenses	$    34,400
Total expenses	$ 139,400
Net operating income	$      9,100

Answer is D. $9,100