Fundamentals of Cost Accounting
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ISBN: 9781260708783
Author: LANEN, William
Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL HIGHER EDUCATION
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Chapter 17, Problem 42P
Industry Volume and Market Share Variances: Missing Data
The following graph is similar to the one presented in Exhibit 17.4. Actual sales volume for the firm is below its budgeted sales volume.
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Find the missing amounts:
- a. Actual minus budgeted sales volume.
- b. Budgeted industry volume.
- c. Budgeted market share percent.
- d. Actual market share percent.
- e. Actual industry volume.
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Which statement is true?
A. Gross profit (GP) variance analysis, is an essential part of
financial statements analysis that is used to evaluate
the performance of a firm's departments responsible
for the firm's line activities (functions).
B. Increases and decreases in sales and cost of sales have
direct relationship with increases and decreases in GP.
C. If there is a negative sales price variance and there is no
cost variance, the gross profit variance will be equal to the
sales price variance.
D. A zero cost variance indicates that there is no difference
between the standard cost prices and actual cost prices.
E. none of the above
Management Accounting
Question (Qualitative Short Answer)
a. Why is the sales forecast the starting point in budgeting?
b. What is a perpetual budget?
c. Which is a better basis for evaluating actual results: budgeted performance or past performance? Why?
d. The materials price variance can be computed at what two different points in time? Which point is better and why?
e. What effect, if any, would you expect purchasing poor-quality materials to have on direct labor variances?
f. Distinguish between ideal and practical standards.
g. Costs associated with the quality of conformance can be broken down into four broad groups. What are these four groups and how do they differ?
h. What is likely the most effective way to reduce a company's total quality costs?
i. What are the three main uses of quality cost reports?
Which of the following statements is incorrect?
a. Sales volume variance is the amount by which sales would have varied from the base sales if only the sales volume had changed.
b. Sales price variance measures the impact on the firm’s gross profit of changes in the unit selling price.
c. Cost volume variance is the amount by which cost of sales would have varied from the base cost of sales if only the units produced had changed.
d. Cost price variance measures the impact on the firm’s gross profit of changes in the unit cost price or cost of sales.
Chapter 17 Solutions
Fundamentals of Cost Accounting
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