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Preparing a Flexible Budget and Evaluating Performance

P 2. Home Products Company manufactures a complete line of kitchen glassware. The Beverage Division specializes in 12-ounce drinking glasses. Erin Fisher, the superintendent of the Beverage Division, asked the controller to prepare a report of her division’s performance in April. The following report was handed to her a few days later:

In discussing the report with the controller, Fisher stated, “Profits have been decreasing in recent months, but this report indicates that our production process is operating efficiently.”

Required

1. Prepare a flexible budget for the Beverage Division using production levels of 45,000 units, 50,000 units, and 55,000 units.

2. What is the flexible budget formula?

3. Assume that the Beverage Division produced 46,560 units in April and that all fixed costs remained constant. Prepare a revised performance report similar to the one above, using actual production in units as a basis for the budget column.

4. Which report is more meaningful for performance evaluation, the original one above or the revised one? Why?