Problem $9-18($Algo$)$ Activity and Spending Variances $[$LO$9-1,$ LO$9-2,$ LO$9-3]$

You have just been hired by FAB Corporation, the manufacturer of a revolutionary new garage door opening device. The president has asked that you review the company's costing system and $"$do what you can to help us get better control of our manufacturing overhead costs." You find that the company has never used a flexlble budget, and you suggest that preparing such a budget would be an excellent first step in overhead planning and control.

After much effort and analysis, you determined the following cost formulas and gathered the following actual cost data for March:

$\backslash$table$[[,,$Actual Cost$],[,$Cost Formula,in March$],[$Utilities$,$$$16,500+$$$0\mathrm{.}14$ per machine$-$hour,$$21,380$