When machineminushours are used as an overhead costminusallocation base and annual leasing costs for equipment unexpectedly increase, the most likely result would be to report a(n) . A. unfavorable variable overhead spending variance B. favorable variable overhead efficiency variance C. favorable productionminusvolume variance D. unfavorable fixed overhead flexibleminusbudget variance

D. unfavorable fixed overhead flexible minus budget variance

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As the cost of the equipment is increasing the fixed efficiency and idle capacity variance would be unfavorable resulting in an  unfavorable fixed overhead flexible minus budget variance.

The expenses of the machinery are the fixed indirect costs which result in fixed overhead variances. Since it is related to the working of the machinery it would result in efficiency and idle capacity variances that in turn would give unfavorable fixed overhead of the flexible minus budget variance.

"it's not the heat, it's the humidity".   that's a partly valid phrase you may have heard in the summer, but it's actually both.   the heat index, also known as the apparent temperature, is what the temperature feels like to the human body when relative humidity is combined with the air temperature.   this has important considerations for the human body's comfort.   when the body gets too hot, it begins to perspire or sweat to cool itself off.   if the perspiration is not able to evaporate, the body cannot regulate its temperature.   evaporation is a cooling process.   when perspiration is evaporated off the body, it effectively reduces the body's temperature.   when the atmospheric moisture content (i.e. relative humidity) is high, the rate of perspiration from the body decreases.   in other words, the human body feels warmer in humid conditions.   the opposite is true when the relative humidity decreases because the rate of perspiration increases.   the body actually feels cooler in arid conditions.   there is direct relationship between the air temperature and relative humidity and the heat index, meaning as the air temperature and relative humidity increase (decrease), the heat index increases (decreases).

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