You have just been hired by fab corporation, the manufacturer of a revolutionary new garage door opening device. the president has asked that you review the company’s costing system and “do what you can to us get better control of our manufacturing overhead costs.” you find that the company has never used a flexible budget, and you suggest that preparing such a budget would be an excellent first step in overhead planning and control. after much effort and analysis, you determined the following cost formulas and gathered the following actual cost data for march: cost formula actual cost in march utilities $16,700 plus $0.14 per machine-hour $ 21,160 maintenance $38,800 plus $1.70 per machine-hour $ 64,900 supplies $0.80 per machine-hour $ 15,000 indirect labor $94,800 plus $1.40 per machine-hour $ 122,300 depreciation $67,800 $ 69,500 during march, the company worked 17,000 machine-hours and produced 11,000 units. the company had originally planned to work 19,000 machine-hours during march. required: 1. calculate the activity variances for march. 2. calculate the spending variances for march.