Bank Organizer Printers, Inc., produces luxury checkbooks with three checks and stubs per page. Each checkbook is designed for an individual customer and is ordered through the customer's

bank. The company's operating budget for September $2020$ included these data:

$($Click the icon to view the operating budget and actual results.$)$

The executive vice president of the company observed that the operating income for September was much lower than anticipated, despite a higher$-$than$-$budgeted selling price and

a lower$-$than$-$budgeted variable cost per unit. As the company's management accountant, you have been asked to provide explanations for the disappointing September results. Bank Organizer

develops its flexible budget on the basis of budgeted per$-$output$-$unit revenue and per$-$output$-$unit variable costs without detailed analysis of budgeted inputs.

Read the requirements.

Requirement $1.$ Prepare a static$-$budget$-$based variance analysis of the September performance.

Begin with the actual results, then compute the static budget and the static$-$budget variances. Label each variance as favorable or unfavorable. $($Enter an operating loss with a minus sign

or parentheses.$)$

Actual

Results

Units sold

Revenues

Variable costs

Contribution margin

Fixed costs

Operating income $($loss$)$

Requirements

Prepare a static$-$budget$-$based variance analysis of the September performance.

Prepare a flexible$-$budget$-$based variance analysis of the September performance.

Why might Bank Organizer find the flexible$-$budget$-$based variance analysis more

informative than the static$-$budget$-$based variance analysis? Explain your answer.

Data table

The budgeted amounts for September $2020$ were:

The actual results for September $2020$ were as follows:

Number of checkbooks produced and sold

$9,000$

Average selling price per book

Variable cost per book