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  • This topic has 4 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 9 years ago by John Moffat.
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  • May 28, 2016 at 3:12 pm #317736
    amawesome2
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    Will sales qty variance for 2 prodcts sold in a a sales mix differ according to the method used? For eg refer qs 73 of bpp revsn kit(carad).in that i used the method given in bpp text bk to get sales qty variance of 40700 in total (plasma-29600 &lcd-11100) ,but the answer looked different

    May 28, 2016 at 3:51 pm #317745
    amawesome2
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    Different in the sense, the individual variances and not the total

    May 28, 2016 at 4:41 pm #317775
    John Moffat
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    No – there is only one answer (even though you can use different methods by all means, they all will give the same answer).

    May 28, 2016 at 5:27 pm #317785
    amawesome2
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    Then please explain to me what went wrong my calculations were:-

    Plasma. LCD
    Bdgtd qty. 590. 590
    Act qty. 750. 650
    Difference. 160. 60
    Wghtd std cont pu. 185. 185
    Variance. 29600. 11100

    May 29, 2016 at 7:50 am #317868
    John Moffat
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    If you want to calculate the sales quantity variance using the weighted standard contribution, then you apply it to the difference between the total actual and budgeted sales (not the sales for each unit separately).

    This is because the sales quantity variance assumes they sell in standard mix. (The mix variance deals with any change of mix).

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