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hi.. am a final student appearing for Nov 09.. i have a doubt in costing.. culd sum1 help me out..
Super Computers manufactures and sells three related PC Models:
(1) PC – Sold mostly to college students
(2) Portable PC – Smaller version of PC positioned as home computer
(3) Super PC – Sold mostly to business executives.
Budgeted and actual data for 2003 as follows:
Budget for 2003
Selling price p.u..(Rs) Variable Cost p.u.(Rs) Contributionp.u.(Rs) Sales unit
PC 24,000 14,000 10,000 7,000
Portable PC 16,000 10,000 6,000 1,000
Super PC 1,00,000 60,000 40,000 2,000
Actual for 2003 .
Selling price Variable Cost Contribution Margin Sales
Rs./unit Rs. /unit Rs./unit Units.
PC 22,000 10,000 12,000 8,250
Portable PC 13,000 8,000 5,000 1,650
Super PC 70,000 50,000 20,000 1,100
Super computer derived its total unit sales budget for 2003 from the internal management estimate of a20% market share and an industry sales forecast by computer manufacturers association of 50,000 units. At the end of the year the association reported actual industry sales of 68,750 units.
Required:
(i) Compute the individual product and total sales volume variance.
(ii) Compute total sales quantity variance .
(iii) Compute the market size and market share variances.
(iv) Compute individual product and total sales mix variances.
(v) Comment on your results.
my doubt was how will i compute sales variance? i get a different ans if i use the formula given in padhuka