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17.30

Electricity use 30 KWH per patient-day
Electric rate $0.12 per KWH
Fixed monthly electricity charge $1,250 per month

a. Flexible budget formula Variable per KWH Fixed per month
Electricity cost =

b. Columnar flexible budget, patient-days 30,000 40,000 50,000
Variable electricity cost
Fixed electricity cost
Total electricity cost

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17.47

Variable overhead spending variance $100 U
Fixed overhead spending variance 450 U
Flexible budgeted variable overhead $32,100
at 10,700 direct labor hours
Direct labor hours worked 10,600 hours
Total actual overhead $54,350
Fixed overhead application rate base 11,000 hours

Variance analysis Actual Spending or budget Variance Budget at actual inputs Efficiency or Volume variance Flexible budget
Variable overhead
Fixed overhead

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This responds to problems for Rocky Mountain Community Hospital and Rainbow Greeting Cards, Inc. Your response is in excel, showing how to get the flexible budget and giving you a diagram useful in analyzing the overhead variances. This requires a bit of detective work and so a side analysis is shown so you can see how to solve the puzzle of "missing pieces."

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