Flexible budget, planning budget, activity variances - during september, comehome corporation budgeted for 36,500 customers, but actually served 35,000 customers. the company uses the following revenue and cost formulas in its budgeting, where q is the number of customers served:

revenue: $30.20q
wages: $12.50q
supplies: $4.20q
insurance: $17,400 per month
miscellaneous expense: $12,000 month + $2.40q
prepare the company's planning budget for september (use thursday’s lecture slides and exhibit 9-2 of your text as a guide).
prepare the company's flexible budget for september (use thursday’s lecture slides and exhibit 9-5 of your text as a guide).
calculate the company’s activity variances for each line item for september (use thursday’s lecture slides and exhibit 9-6 of your text as a guide). you must also indicate whether each specific activity variance is favorable (‘f’) or unfavorable (‘u’).

Costs of production that do not change when output changes.question 17 options: total revenuefixed incometotal costfixed cost

The cutting department of cassel company has the following production and cost data for july. production costs 1. transferred out 12,300 units. beginning work in process $0 2. started 3,900 units that are 60% materials 62,856 complete as to conversion labor 12,622 costs and 100% complete as manufacturing overhead 23,100 to materials at july 31. materials are entered at the beginning of the process. conversion costs are incurred uniformly during the process. determine the equivalent units of production for (1) materials and (2) conversion costs. materials conversion costs total equivalent units of production link to text link to text compute unit costs. (round unit costs to 2 decimal places, e.g. 2.25.) materials $ conversion costs $ link to text link to text prepare a cost reconciliation schedule. (round unit costs to 2 decimal places, e.g. 2.25 and final answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 1,225.) cost reconciliation costs accounted for transferred out $ work in process, july 31 materials $ conversion costs total costs $

Onsider the following subscription behavior information from genie, a web site that provides tools for constructing a family tree (ancestor search). subscriptions cost $9.99 per month, but you are charged for the entire year at the time of purchase. there is a one-year minimum term when you sign up for the service. once purchased, subscriptions are set to renew automatically unless the subscriber cancels them. when a membership renews, it renews for a one-year term and again you are charged for the entire year. there are no variable costs associated with providing this service to an individual customer, but genie does engage in customer relationship activities that they believe will increase customer retention. these customer relationship activities cost genie about $10 per year per customer. based on a sample of 1000 customers that joined genie five years ago, near the time when the company was founded, they were able to determine how many of those customers remained subscribers in the second year, third year etc. based on this information, genie calculated the average annual retention rate to be 20%. genie uses an annual discount rate of 8%. a. last year, genie spent $10,000 placing advertisements on google. genie management believes that these advertisements were responsible for about 300 new subscribers. would you recommend to genie management that they purchase more google ads? b. suppose a newly-introduced loyalty program increases the number of customers that remained to 30%. does this new data change your answer to 9.a? c. do you have any hesitations or concerns about making recommendations to management based on your above estimate of customer lifetime value?