Scenario: The Redmond Management Association held its annual public relations luncheon in April Year 2. Based on the previous year's results, the organization allocated $25,290 of its operating budget to cover the cost of the luncheon. To ensure that costs would be appropriately controlled, you, the treasurer, prepared the following budget for the Year 2 luncheon.
Use Excel—showing all work and formulas—to complete the following:
1. Prepare a flexible budget.
2. Compute the sales volume variance and the variable cost volume variances based on a comparison between the master budget and the flexible budget.
3. Compute flexible budget variances by comparing the flexible budget with the actual results.