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Teecorp Company Uses a Flexible Budget for Its Indirect Manufacturing

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Teecorp Company uses a flexible budget for its indirect manufacturing costs.For 2015,the company anticipated that it would produce 27,000 units with 4,800 machine-hours and 8,000 employee days.The costs and cost drivers were to be as follows:
 Fixed  Variable  Cost driver  Product handling $45,000$0.75 per unit  Inspection 12,00012.00 per 100 unit batch  Utilities 6006.00 per 100 unit batch  Maintenance 1,2500.25 per machine-hour  Supplies 5.00 per employee day \begin{array}{lrrl}&\text { Fixed }&\text { Variable } & \text { Cost driver }\\\text { Product handling } & \$ 45,000 & \$ 0.75 & \text { per unit } \\\text { Inspection } & 12,000 & 12.00 & \text { per } 100 \text { unit batch } \\\text { Utilities } & 600 & 6.00 & \text { per } 100 \text { unit batch } \\\text { Maintenance } & 1,250 & 0.25 & \text { per machine-hour } \\\text { Supplies } & & 5.00 & \text { per employee day }\end{array} During the year,the company processed 26,500 units,worked 8,200 employee days,and had 4,850 machine-hours.The actual costs for 2015 were:
 Actual costs  Product handling $65,000 Inspection 16,200 Utilities 2,220 Maintenance 2,850 Supplies 39,900\begin{array}{lr}&\text { Actual costs }\\\text { Product handling } & \$ 65,000 \\\text { Inspection } & 16,200 \\\text { Utilities } & 2,220 \\\text { Maintenance } & 2,850 \\\text { Supplies } & 39,900\end{array} Required:
a.Prepare the static budget using the overhead items above and then compute the static-budget variances.
b.Prepare the flexible budget using the overhead items above and then compute the flexible-budget variances.

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