You have just been hired by FAB Corporation, the manufacturer of a revolutionary new garage door opening device. The president asked you to review the company's costing system and $"$do what you can to help us get better control of our manufacturing overhead costs." You find the company has never used a flexible budget, and you suggest preparing such a budget would be an excellent first step in overhead planning and control.

After much effort and analysis, you estimated the following cost formulas and gathered the following actual cost data for March:

During March, the company worked $18,000$ machine$-$hours and produced $12,000$ units. The company originally planned to work $20,000$ machine$-$hours during March.

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Calculate the activity variances for March.

Calculate the spending variances for March.

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Note: Indicate the effect of each yarlance by selecting $"$P for favorable, $"$y tor unfavorable and vone for no effect $(1.$ e$.,$ zero variance$).$ Input all amounts as positive yalues

$\backslash$table$[[$FAB Corporation$],[$Activity Variances$],[$For the Month Ended March $31],[$Utilies$],[$Maintenance$],[$Supplles$],[$Indirect labor$],[$Deproclation$],[$Tolal$]]$You have just been hired by FAB Corporation, the manufacturer of a revolutionary new garage door opening device. The president asked you to review the company's costing system and $\text{'}$do what you can to help us get better control of our manufacturing overhead costs" You find the company has never used a flexible budget, and you suggest preparing such a budget would be an excellent first step in overhead planning and control.

After much effort and analysis, you estimated the following cost formulas and gathered the following actual cost data for March:

$\backslash$table$[[,$Cost Formula,$\backslash$table$[[$Actual Cost$],[$in March$]]],[\backslash$table$[[$Utilities$],[$Maintenance$],[$Suppties$],[$Indirect labor$],[$Depreciation$]],\backslash$table$[[$$$16,700+$$$0\mathrm{.}12$ per machine$-$hour$],[$$$36,900+$$$1\mathrm{.}30$ per machine$-$hour$],[$$$0\mathrm{.}50$ per nachine$-$hour$],[$$$94,200+$$$1\mathrm{.}30$ per machine$-$hour$],[$$$67,900$