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Providence Hospital generates monthly performance reports for each of its departments

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Providence Hospital generates monthly performance reports for each of its departments. The hospital must maintain an adequate staff of attending and on-call physicians at all times, so physician costs are not affected by the number of patient visits. But all other costs do vary with patient activity. Nurse-hours are used as the activity measure for nursing costs, and patient visits are used as the activity measure for the cost of supplies and other variable costs. The head physician of the hospital's emergency room, Yolanda Mortensen, is responsible for control of costs. During October, the emergency room unit expected to treat 3,500 patients but actually treated 3,600 patients. The following additional information for October is available: Budget Actual Variance Nurse-hours 2,100 2,232 -132 Nursing costs $48,300 $30,500 $17,800 Supplies & other variable costs $38,500 $27,100 $11,400 Fixed costs $95,500 $98,400 $-2,900 Required Compute the flexible-budget variances for each of the cost categories for October (NOTE: enter favorable variances as positive numbers unfavorable variances as negative numbers): Nursing costs 20836 Supplies and other variable costs 22580 Fixed costs -2900 Submit Answer Incorrect. Tries 2/6 Previous Tries