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Dylan & Father operate a tax accounting practice with partners and staff members. Each billable hour of partner time has a $590 budgeted price and $290 budgeted variable cost. Each billable hour of staff time has a budgeted price of $130 and a budgeted variable cost of $70. This month, the partnership budget called for 8,800 billable partner-hours and 35,700 staff-hours. Actual results were as follows:

Partner revenue $ 4,787,000 8,300 hours

Staff revenue $ 4,575,000 35,000 hours

Required:

(a) Compute the sales price variance. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance).)

(b) Compute the total sales activity variance. (Indicate the effect of the variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Do not round your intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest dollar amount.)

(c) Compute the total sales mix variance. (Indicate the effect of the variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Do not round your intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest dollar amount.)

(d) Compute the total sales quantity variance. (Indicate the effect of the variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Do not round your intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest dollar amount.)

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