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About Variances

Forums › Ask ACCA Tutor Forums › Ask the Tutor ACCA MA – FIA FMA › About Variances

  • This topic has 5 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 9 years ago by AvatarJohn Moffat.
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  • November 23, 2016 at 5:46 am #350840
    Avatartahajaffri
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    hi mr.moffat how are you…i am doing bcom(Becholar of Commerce)along with ACCA..i saw a question of variances in past papers of bcom in which examiner said give genaral entries of variances and make t accounts and close all variances…so after saw that question i was in trouble..so my question is that we did not learn any entries of variance and did not make any t account of variances and close variances…so when we will learn these things in variances because we have learned completed variances in standard costing??i am waiting for your answer……thank you

    November 23, 2016 at 8:03 am #350899
    AvatarJohn Moffat
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    ACCA exams never ever require the double entries for variances – it is not in the syllabus.

    What is asked is the calculation of the variances, not the double entries nor the t-accounts.

    November 23, 2016 at 12:46 pm #350946
    Avatartahajaffri
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    So when we will learn to close variances and make double entries of it..?in Paper F5?

    November 23, 2016 at 3:43 pm #351007
    AvatarJohn Moffat
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    Never!

    It is just not in the ACCA syllabus.

    (It is rarely relevant in practice either – the variances are usually calculated on a computer (using a spreadsheet). There is no requirement and no need for t-accounts – people stopped using them for variance analysis well over 20 years ago. It would be a complete waster of time. 🙂 )

    November 25, 2016 at 6:31 am #351318
    Avatartahajaffri
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    Thank you so much..

    November 25, 2016 at 7:31 am #351344
    AvatarJohn Moffat
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    You are welcome :_)

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