The Little Theatre is a nonprofit organization devoted to staging plays for children. The theater has a very small full-time professional administrative staff. Through a special arrangement with the actors' union, actors and directors rehearse without pay and are paid only for actual performances The Little Theatre had tentatively planned to put on six different productions with a total of 108 performances. For example, one of the productions was Peter Rabbit, which had a six-week run with three performances on each weekend. The costs from the current year's planning budget appear below The Little Theatre costs from the Planning Budget For the Year Ended December 31 Budgeted number of productions Budgeted number of performances 108 Actors and directors wages 299,760 Stagehands wages 56,160 Ticket booth personnel and users wages 39,960 Scenery, costumes, and props 109,320 Theater hall rent 77,760 Printed programs 52,768 Publicity 13,320 Administrative expenses Total $ 654,000 6 66,960 Some of the costs vary with the number of productions, some with the number of performances, and some are fixed and depend on neither the number of productions nor the number of performances. The costs of scenery, costumes, props, and publicity vary with the number of productions. It doesn't make any difference how many times Peter Rabbit is performed, the cost of the scenery is the same Likewise, the cost of publicizing a play with posters and radio commercials is the same whether there are 10, 20, or 30 performances of the play. On the other hand, the wages of the actors, directors, stagehands, ticket booth personnel, and ushlers vary with the number of performances. The greater the number of performances, the higher the wage costs will be Similarly, the costs of renting the hall and printing the programs will vary with the number of performances Administrative expenses are more difficult to analyze, but the best estimate is that approximately 75% of the budgeted costs are fixed, 15% depend on the number of productions staged, and the remaining 10% depend on the number of performances After the beginning of the year, the board of directors of the theater authorized expanding the theater's program to seven productions and a total of 168 performances. Not surprisingly, actual costs were considerably higher than the costs from the planning budget. (Grants from donors and ticket sales were also correspondingly higher, but are not shown here) Date concerning the actual costs appear below The Little Theatre Actual Costs For the Year Ended December 31 Actual number of productions Actual number of performances Actors and directors wases $ 402, 500 Stagehands wages 36,000 2 16 Saved 7 168 The Little Theatre Actual Costs For the Year Ended December 31 Actual number of productions Actual number of performances Actors and directors wages Stagehands wages Ticket booth personnel and ushers wages Scenery, costumes, and props Theater hall rent Printed programs Publicity Administrative expenses Total $ 482,500 86,000 54,400 131,700 112,100 72,400 17,300 88,500 $ 966,900 Required: 1. Prepare a flexible budget performance report for the year that shows both spending variances and activity variances. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive values.) The Little Theatre Flexible Budget Performance Report For the Year Ended December 31 Actual Flexible Results Budget 7 168 Number of productions Number of performances Planning Budget 6 108 $ 402 500 86,000 64,400 Actors' and directors' wages Stagehands' wages Ticket booth personnel and ushers' wages Scenery, costumes, and props Theatre hall rent Printed programs Publicity Administrative expenses Total 131,700 112,100 72.400 17.300 80.500 $ 966,900 $ 239.760 56.160 39,960 109,320 77.760 50,760 13,320 66,960 $ 654,000