Presented Below Are Terms Preceded by Letters (A)through (H)and Followed

question 15

Essay

Presented below are terms preceded by letters (a)through (h)and followed by a list of definitions (1)through (8).Enter the letter of the term with the definition,using the space preceding the definition.
(a) Unfavorable variance
(b) Fixed budget performance report
(c) Overhead cost variance
(d) Budgetary control
(e) Spending variance
(f) Flexible budget performance report
(g) Efficiency variance
(h) Favorable variance
__________(1) Difference in sales or costs,when the actual value is compared to the budgeted value,that contributes to a lower income.
__________(2) A report that compares results with fixed budgeted amounts and identifies the differences as favorable or unfavorable variances.
__________(3) The difference between the actual price of an item and its standard price.
__________(4) Difference in sales or costs,when the actual value is compared to the budgeted value,that contributes to a higher income.
__________(5) Use of budgets by management to monitor and control the operations of a company.
__________(6) Difference between actual quantity of an input and the standard quantity of the input.
__________(7) Difference between the total overhead cost applied to products and the total overhead cost actually incurred.
__________(8) A report that compares actual revenues and costs with their variable budgeted amounts based on actual sales volume (or other level of activity)and identifies the differences as variances.

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Definitions:

Risky Asset

A financial instrument that has a significant degree of risk associated with it, potentially leading to loss or gain.

Negatively Correlated

Describes two variables that move in opposite directions; as one increases, the other tends to decrease.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean value, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Portfolio

A collection of investments held by an individual or an institution.