Schoening Corporation is a shipping container refurbishment company that measures its output by the number of containers refurbished. The company has provided the following fixed and variable cost estimates that it uses for budgeting purposes and the actual results of operations for January. Fixed Element per Month Variable Element per Container Refurbished Actual Total for January Revenue $ 4,100 $ 158,600 Employee salaries and wages $ 50,600 $ 1,100 $ 92,700 Refurbishing materials $ 700 $ 27,000 Other expenses $ 41,200 $ 40,800 When the company prepared its planning budget at the beginning of January, it assumed that 40 containers would have been refurbished. However, 38 containers were actually refurbished during January. The revenue variance in the Revenue and Spending Variances column of a report comparing actual results to the flexible budget for January would have been closest to:

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Answer:

The revenue variance would have been $5,400 unfavorable.

The revenue variance = actual revenue - budgeted revenue = $158,600 - $164,000 = -$5,400 unfavorable (when you analyze revenues, negative variances are unfavorable because it means that less money was earned than budgeted).

Explanation:

total number of containers refurbished 38, while the budgeted number was 40:

                         budget            actual        (over)/under      variance

revenue            164,000         158,600          (5,400)              U

wages                94,600           92,700           (1,900)              F

materials            28,000           27,000          (1,000)              F

others                 41,200           40,800              400)              F

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