Check Plus Printers, Inc., produces luxury checkbooks with three checks and stubs per page. Each checkbook is designed for an individual customer and is ordered through the customer's bank. The company's operating budget for September 2017 included these data:
The budgeted amounts for September 2017 were:
Number of checkbooks |
13,000 |
Selling price per book |
$19 |
Variable cost per book |
$6 |
Fixed costs for the month |
$125,000 |
The actual results for September
2017
were as follows:
Number of checkbooks produced and sold |
9,800 |
Average selling price per book |
$21 |
Variable cost per book |
$5 |
Fixed costs for the month |
$131,000 |
The executive vice president of the company observed that the operating income for September was much lower than anticipated, despite a higher-than-budgeted selling price and a lower-than-budgeted variable cost per unit. As the company's management accountant, you have been asked to provide explanations for the disappointing September results.
Check Plus develops its flexible budget on the basis of budgeted per-output-unit revenue and per-output-unit variable costs without detailed analysis of budgeted inputs.
Requirements
1. |
Prepare a static-budget-based variance analysis of the September performance. |
2. |
Prepare a flexible-budget-based variance analysis of the September performance. |
3. |
Why might Check Plus find the flexible budget based variance analysis more informative that the static budget based variance analysis. Explain your answer |
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