The flexible-budget variance measures
A)what the costs and revenues should have been for the budgeted number of outputs.
B)the difference between budgeted expenditures and actual expenditures for the budgeted number of outputs.
C)the difference between budgeted and actual variable costs.
D)[expected expenditures for the actual number of outputs] + [the actual expenditures for the actual number of outputs].
E)[actual cost for the actual level of the revenue or cost driver] - [budget unit amount × the actual level of the revenue or cost driver].

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The flexible-budget variance measures the difference between the actual cost for the actual level of the revenue or cost driver and the budget unit amount multiplied by the actual level of the revenue or cost driver. This helps to evaluate the performance by comparing the actual costs to what the costs should have been for the actual level of activity. Therefore, option E is the correct choice.

The Flexible-Budget Variance Measures