Variance analysis, nonmanufacturing setting. Stevie McQueen has run Lightning Car Detailing for the past ten years. His static budget and actual results for June 2011 are pro- 95 pigyinjo budget variancfeo r vided below. Stevie has one employee who has been with him for all ten years thathe has been —_jghour $30 F in business. He has not been as lucky with his second and third employees. Stevie is hiring new employees in those positions almost every second month. It usually takes 2 hours to detail a vehicle. It takes as long for the seasoned employee as for the new ones, as the former tends to put more into the job. Stevie pays his long-term employee $20 per hour and the other two employees $10 per hour. Stevie pays all employees for 2 hours of work on each car, regardless of how long the work actually takes them. There were no wage increases in June.

REQUIRED 1. Prepare a statement of the static budget variances that Stevie would be interested in. 2. Compute any flexible budget variances that you believe would be appropriate. 3. What information, in addition to that provided in the income statements, would you want Stevie to gather if you wanted to improve operational efficiency? 4. How many cars, on average, did Stevie budget for each employee? How many cars did they actually detail? 5. What advice would you give Stevie about motivating his employees?LO1

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Lightning Car Detailing Actual and Budgeted Income Statements For the Month Ending June 30, 2011 Budget Actual Cars detailed Revenue 200 225 $30,000 $39,375 Variable costs: Costs of supplies 1,500 2,250 Labour 5,600 6,000 Total variable costs 7,100 8,250 Contribution margin 22,900 31,125 Fixed costs 9,500 9,500 Operating income $13,400 $21,625