Budgetary Variance Model
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Budgetary Variance Analysis
In order to analyze the budgetary variance, initially, total variance will be calculated, which can be done through following formula:
Total Variance = Actual Costs - Assigned Costs
= Actual Costs - (Actual Volume * Budgeted Cost per Unit)
= $1,800,000 - (100,000 × $16.00)
= $1,800,000 - $1,600,000
= $200,000 (Unfavorable)
On the basis of the above calculation, it can be stated that actual cost is greater than assigned cost. It shows that the radiology department has an unfavorable variance of $200,000 that opposes the claims of the manager to have a favorable variance of $120,000. A favorable variance occurs, when the actual expenses are lower than the budgeted amount or when the actual revenues are higher than budgeted. An unfavorable variance occurs, when actual expenditures are higher than budgeted or the actual revenues are lower than expected. In this case, actual costs are higher than budgeted, so it can be concluded that the claims of the manager to possess the favorable variance cannot be said effectively (Kinney & Raiborn, 2012).
The unfavorable total variance will have to be analyzed further to evaluate the performance of the department manager. For this, the total variance can be broken into two types of variances that are spending and volume variances.
On the other hand, spending variance can be calculated by the below formulas:
Spending Variance = Actual Costs - ...
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