Fundamentals of Cost Accounting
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ISBN: 9781259565403
Author: William N. Lanen Professor, Shannon Anderson Associate Professor, Michael W Maher
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 17, Problem 20E
Industry Volume and Market Share Variances
D&B Ice Cream budgeted sales of 136,000 units of flavor C, assuming that the company would have 16 percent of 850,000 units sold in a particular market. The actual results were 126,000 units, based on a 14 percent share of a total market of 900,000 units. The budgeted contribution margin is $6 per unit.
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Compute the sales activity variance, and break it down into market share and industry volume.
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