The static budget amount is subtracted from the flexible budget amount to calculate the __________?

Correct answer: A. sales budget variance

  • A. sales budget variance
  • B. cost budget variance
  • C. resultant budget variance
  • D. static budget variance

Explanation

Subtracting the static budget from the flexible budget isolates the effect of the change in activity or sales volume, commonly labelled sales budget variance in this question's terminology. It is not the flexible budget variance, which compares flexible budget with actual results.

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