Margot's Ice Cream operates several stores in a major metropolitan city and its suburbs. Its budget and operating data for the current year follow: Budgeted Data Selling Variable Price per Costs per Gallon Actual Operating Results Selling Price per Costs per Gallon $ 1.30 1.75 Variable Flavor Vanilla Chocolate Strawberry Anchovy Gallons Gallon Gallons 204,000 300, 000 350,000 186,000 Gallon $ 1.45 $ 0.75 264,000 330,000 220,000 66,000 $ 0.65 0.90 0.95 1.90 1.00 2.00 2.90 0.90 1.40 2.20 3.40 1.60 Required: 1. Compute these variances for the individual flavors and total quantity sold. (Use the Contribution Margin in your calculations and do not round intermediate calculations.) Flavor Sales Volume Variance Sales Mix Variance Sales Quantity Variance Vanilla Chocolate
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A budget is a financial plan designed by an undertaking for a definite period in future which acts as a major contributor towards enhancing the financial success of the business undertaking. The budget generally takes into account both current and future income and expenses.
![Margot's Ice Cream operates several stores in a major metropolitan city and its suburbs. Its budget and operating data for
the current year follow:
Budgeted Data
Selling
Price per Costs per
Gallon
Actual Operating Results
Selling Variable
Price per Costs per
Gallon
$ 0.65
Variable
Flavor
Gallons
264,000
330,000
220,000
66,000
Gallon
Gallons
Gallon
Vanilla
Chocolate
Strawberry
Anchovy
$ 1.45
$ 0.75
204,000
300,000
350,000
186,000
$ 1.30
1.75
2.20
1.90
2.00
1.00
0.90
0.90
0.95
2.90
1.40
3.40
1.60
Required:
1. Compute these variances for the individual flavors and total quantity sold. (Use the Contribution Margin in your
calculations and do not round intermediate calculations.)
b.
Flavor
Sales Volume Variance
Sales Mix Variance
Sales Quantity Variance.
Vanilla
Chocolate
Strawberry
Anchovy
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