Business

Estes

28 October, 22:21

Skoff Corporation is a shipping container refurbishment company that measures its output by the number of containers refurbished. The company has provided the following fixed and variable cost estimates that it uses for budgeting purposes and the actual results of operations for March. - Fixed Element per Variable Element Actual Total

Month per Container Refurbished for March

Revenue $ 4,000 $ 130,000

Employee salaries $ 42,700 $ 1,000 $ 75,600

and wages

Refurbishing materials $ 600 $ 18,800

Other expenses $ 37,900 $ 38,400

When the company prepared its planning budget at the beginning of March, it assumed that 35 containers would have been refurbished. However, 32 containers were actually refurbished during March.

The activity variance for "Refurbishing materials" for March would have been closest to: Multiple Choice:

$1,800 F

$2,200 U

$1,800 U

$2,200 F