A company uses standard marginal costing to monitor its performance in a period actual profit
was $142,000. Budgeted fixed overheads were $50,000 and the fixed overhead expenditure
variance was $3,000 adverse. What was the actual contribution in the period
i got 195000 by doing using this
actual contribution - X
less budgeted fixed overhead - (50000)
fixed overhead expenditure - (3000)
actual profit- 142000
but the textbook got 145000 as an answer, i dont know what i am doing wrong, can someone plz help
