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AC1115
Flexible Budgets and Performance Reporting
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Static Budgets | Prepared for a single planned level of activity |
| When is performance Evaluation diffiicult? | When actual activity differs from the planned level of acctivity |
| Unfavourable Variance | Unable to achieve the budgeted level of activity |
| Favourable Variance | Occurs when actual costs are less than budgeted costs |
| Flexible Budgets | - Shows revenues and expenses that should have occurred at the level of activity -May be prepared for any activity level in the relative range - Improve performance evaluation |
| What do we need to know when doing a flexible budget? | Total VC change in direct proportion to changes in activity Total FC remain unchanged within the relevant range |
| 2 Reasons for unfavourable variable o/h variances | 1. Spending too much for resources 2. Using the resources inefficiently |
| POHR | Predetermined Over Head Rate |
| Total POHR | Sum of the fixed and variable rates for a given activity level |
| Spending Variance | Results from paying more or less than expected for o/h items and from too much usage of o/h items |
| Efficiency Variance | Controlled by managing the o/h cost driver |
| Budget Variance | Results from paying more or less than expected for o/h items |
| Volume Variance | Results from operating at an activity level different from the denominator activity |