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Compare budget with actual?

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  • This topic has 3 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 4 years ago by AvatarJohn Moffat.
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  • September 29, 2021 at 3:43 pm #636691
    AvatarHamzaYusuf
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    Sir, you said in your lecture on budget that we make budget so that we can compare them with the actual activity.

    But I am confused that sometimes we compare budgeted activity with the actual activity and sometime we compare budgeted activity with the standard activity in variances.

    In what variances do we compare budgeted with actual; and the rest we compare budgeted with standard.

    Please help me with this one because I am totally messed up.

    September 30, 2021 at 6:41 am #636732
    AvatarJohn Moffat
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    For all variances we compare the actual results with the flexed budget (i.e. the budget re-written for the actual level of activity).

    October 1, 2021 at 9:54 am #636811
    AvatarHamzaYusuf
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    Sir, I am not referring to the flexed budget where we compare actual activity with the flexed activity but rather I am referring to the variance where sometimes we compare budgeted activity with the actual activity, and sometimes we compare budgeted activity with the standard activity in variances.

    In what variances do we compare budgeted with actual; and the rest we compare budgeted with the standard.

    October 1, 2021 at 4:20 pm #636829
    AvatarJohn Moffat
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    For variance analysis, the sales volume variance is comparing the actual sales volume with the originally budgeted sales volume (costed at standard contribution or profit).

    All the other variances are comparing the actual results with the flexed budget.

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