Different management levels in Bates Inc. require varying degrees of managerial accounting information. Because of the need to comply with the managers' requests, four different variances for manufacturing overhead are computed each month. The information for the September overhead expenditures is as follows:
Required:
a. Compute a 4-variance analysis for the plant controller.
b. Compute a 3-variance analysis for the plant manager.
c. Compute a 2-variance analysis for the corporate controller.
d. Compute the flexible-budget variance for the manufacturing vice-president.
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