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Planning and Operational Variances

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  • This topic has 3 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 9 years ago by John Moffat.
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  • May 22, 2016 at 11:50 am #316369
    saquibsher
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    Hi Sir,
    Please Solve and Explain the following Problem

    Leaf limited has had a mixed year. Its market share has improved two percentage points to 20% but the overall market had contracted by 5% in the same period. The budgeted sales were 504,000 units and standard contribution was $12 per unit.
    What is the level of actual sales?

    A Two percentage points up on budget at 510,080 units
    B Three percent down overall on budget at 488,880 units
    C Three percent up on budget at 519,120 units
    D Up by a little over five and a half percent to 532,000 units

    May 22, 2016 at 11:57 am #316370
    saquibsher
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    also solve these please

    Leaf Limited has had a mixed year. Its market share has improved two percentage points to 20% but the overall market had contracted by 5% in the same period. The budgeted sales were 504,000 units and standard contribution was $12 per unit.
    The sales market size variance is:

    A $1,680,000 Fav
    B $1,680,000 Adv
    C $302,400 Adv
    D $302,400 Fav

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    Leaf Limited has had a mixed year. Its market share has improved two percentage points to 20% but the overall market had contracted by 5% in the same period. The budgeted sales were 504,000 units and standard contribution was $12 per unit.
    The sales market share variance is:

    A $638,400 Adv
    B $638,400 Fav
    C $336,000 Adv
    D $336,000 Fav

    May 22, 2016 at 12:00 pm #316371
    saquibsher
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    i was very confident that i will attempt variances Question in paper very well but seeing these MCQs, it seem to be tough to cross even average….

    May 22, 2016 at 4:31 pm #316433
    John Moffat
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    We are not here to solve questions for you.

    You must have an answer in the same book in which you found the questions (if not then you should be using a different book).

    You should use this forum to ask about things in the answers that you do not understand.

    I will answer the first one, but not the other two!

    The budget sales were 504,000 and the market share was 18% (20% – 2%). Therefore they were expecting the market sales to be 504,000/18% = 2,800,000.

    The market contracted by 5%, and so the actual market sales were 95% x 2,800,000 = 2,660,000.

    The actual market share was 20%, and so Leaf’s sales were 20% x 2,660,000 = 532,000
    (which is a little over 5.5% on the original budget)

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