Question

Dermody Snow Removal's cost formula for its vehicle operating cost is $2,990 per month plus $329 per snow-day. For the month of December, the company planned for activity of 23 snow-days, but the actual level of activity was 21 snow-days. The actual vehicle operating cost for the month was $10,860. The spending variance for vehicle operating cost in December would be closest to:

Answer 1

-$303 Unfavorable

Step-by-step explanation:

The computation of spending variance is shown below:-

Spending variance = Flexible budget - Actual cost

= (23 × $329 + $2,990) - $10,860

= $7,567 + $2,990 - $10,860

= $10,557 - $10,860

= -$303 Unfavorable

Therefore for computing the spending variance we simply subtracted the actual cost from flexible budget.