 Introduction to Managerial Accounting Jeannie M. Folk Ray H. Garrison Eric Noreen
Flexible Budgets and Overhead Analysis
Learning ObjectivesAfter studying Chapter 9, you should be able to:
1Prepare a flexible budget and explain the advantages of the flexible budget approach over the static budget approach. |
 |  |  | 2Prepare a performance report for both variable and fixed overhead costs using the flexible budget approach. |
 |  |  | 3Use the flexible budget to prepare a variable overhead performance report containing only a spending variance. |
 |  |  | 4Use the flexible budget to prepare a variable overhead performance report containing both a spending and an efficiency variance. |
 |  |  | 5Compute the predetermined overhead rate and apply overhead to products in a standard cost system. |
 |  |  | 6Compute and interpret the fixed overhead budget and volume variances. |
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