A Performance Report Combining Activity and Revenue and Spending Variances
Exhibit 9–7 displays a performance report that combines the activity variances (from Exhibit 9–5 ) with the revenue and spending variances (from Exhibit 9–6). The report brings together information from those two earlier exhibits in a way that makes it easier to interpret what happened during the period. The format of this report is a bit different from
the format of the previous reports in that the variances appear between the amounts being compared rather than after them. For example, the activity variances appear between the planning budget amounts and the flexible budget amounts. In Exhibit 9–5, the activity variances appeared after the planning budget and the flexible budget.
Note two numbers in particular in the performance report—the activity variance for net operating income of $13,710 F (favorable) and the overall revenue and spending variance for net operating income of $9,280 U (unfavorable). It is worth repeating what those two numbers mean. The $13,710 favorable activity variance occurred because actual activity (1,100 client-visits) was greater than the budgeted level of activity (1,000 clientvisits).