Chapter 8: Budgeting for Planning and Control
147. If production was budgeted at 400 units and the actual production was 420 units, what would be the flexible budget
variance for materials if the actual cost of materials was $4,150 and the budgeted cost per unit is $10?
a. $50 F
b. $200 U
c. $100 F
d. $150 U
148. Flexible budgets do NOT provide
a. expected costs for a range of activity.
b. budgeted costs for the actual level of activity.
c. budgeted costs for a predetermined level of activity.
d. expected costs for the actual performance level.
149. If a static budget forecasted 100,000 units to be sold in the fiscal year and actual units sold amounted to 120,000,
what assumption could be made under a flexible budget process?
a. Since the actual volume exceeds the budgeted volume, there is an unfavorable volume variance for output.
b. Fixed costs would increase in the flexible budget due to the volume change.
c. The effectiveness of the manager is in question.
d. Variable costs will be higher than projected in the static budget due to the volume variance.
150. Volume variances examine differences between
a. the static budget and actual costs.
b. the flexible budget and static budget.
c. the static budget and the rolling budget.
d. none of these.
151. Activity-based budgets
a. use the knowledge of cost behavior to split the functional-based line items into fixed and variable
components.
b. start with output and then determine the resources necessary to create that output.
c. rely on the use of functional-based line items.
d. work in environments where the products are homogenous and the production process is simple.