Strongheart enterprises anticipated selling 27,000 units of a major product and paying sales commissions of $6 per unit. actual sales and sales commissions totaled 27,500 units and $171,400, respectively. if the company used a flexible budget for performance evaluations, strongheart would report a cost variance of:

Cost variance is $6,400 unfavorable

Explanation:

Cost variance shows that how much under/over valued is the budget. It measures the difference of the actual cost incurred and the budgeted cost.

Earned value is the value of budgeted cost which is calculated using actual activity. It is the cost that should be incur on budgeted units.

Earned value can be calculated as follow:

Earned value = Actual Activity x Budgeted rate = $27,500 x $6 = $165,000

Formula for cost variance is as follow

Cost Variance = Earned Value - Actual Value

Cost Variance = $165,000 - $171,400

Cost Variance = -$6,400

It is an unfavorable variance because company incurred more cost than it should be.

both are integral parts of a corporate balance sheet. the cash flow statement, or statement of cash flows, measures the sources of a company's cash and its uses of cash over a specific time period. the income statement measures a company's financial performance, such as revenues, expenses, profits or losses over a specific time period (in fact, it's sometimes called a statement of financial performance).

a cash flow statement shows exactly how much money a company has received and how much it has spent, traditionally over a period of one month. it captures the current operating results and changes on the balance sheet, such as increases or decreases in accounts receivable or accounts payable, and does not include noncash accounting items such as depreciation and amortization. the cash flow generally comes from revenue received as a result of business activity, but it may be augmented by funds available as a result of credit. a cash flow statement is used to determine the short-term viability and liquidity of a company, specifically how well it is positioned to pay its bills and vendors.

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