EZ-Tax is a tax accounting practice with partners and staff members. Each billable hour of partner time has a $580 budgeted price and $290 budgeted variable cost. Each billable hour of staff time has a budgeted price of $130 and a budgeted variable cost of $80. For the most recent year, the partnership budget called for 8,400 billable partner-hours and 33,700 staff-hours. Actual results were as follows:
Variance Analysis
In layman's terms, variance analysis is an analysis of a difference between planned and actual behavior. Variance analysis is mainly used by the companies to maintain a control over a business. After analyzing differences, companies find the reasons for the variance so that the necessary steps should be taken to correct that variance.
Standard Costing
The standard cost system is the expected cost per unit product manufactured and it helps in estimating the deviations and controlling them as well as fixing the selling price of the product. For example, it helps to plan the cost for the coming year on the various expenses.
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