Wellmann Corporation is a service company that measures its

Wellmann Corporation is a service company that measures its output by the number of customers served. The company has provided the following fixed and variable cost estimates that it uses for budgeting purposes and the actual results of operations for February Element per Month Fixed Element per Total for Customer February Served $4,800 $149,500 Employee salaries and wages 50,500 1,200 85,800 $ 600 18,400 40,100 Revenue Travel expenses Other expenses $41,000 When the company prepared its planning budget at the beginning of February, it assumed that 35 customers would have been served. However, 31 customers were actually served during February. The spending variance for total expenses for February would have been closest to:

Solution

Answer is $ 3000 F

Explanation :

Spending Variance= Standard Expense-Actual Expense

=147300-144300

=$ 3000 F

Standard Expense= ( $1200+600)*31+50500+41000

= $147300

Actual Expense = $144300