by a cost account manager‚ who has received a variance report (given below) from a performance measurement system. I have calculated the appropriate variances and included corrective measures for each of them. REPORT Variances are calculated as follows: CV (cost variance) = BCWP – ACWP SV (schedule variance) = BCWP - BCWS TASK A B C D E ACWP $22‚550 $32‚000 $16‚000 $10‚000 $23‚000 BCWP $25‚000 $30‚000 $15‚000 $17‚000 $24‚000 Cost Variance $2‚450 -$2‚000 -$1‚000 $7000 $1000 BCWS $30
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as good as a company’s capacity to implement it effectively. But most importantly‚ many employees see the new system as an end in itself‚ instead of a means to an end. The way standards are formulated play a crucial role in the results of these variances. For instance‚ management decided to use the sales forecasts based on what they made and incurred in the previous year. This would normally be the case‚ if the company had limited growth prospects. Reporting in aggregate may not allow a company to
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successful year (year 7)‚ Competition spent $32‚760 on advertising. This dropped to $27‚428 the next year. If we only increase the budget by $984‚ you can only expect minimal increases of sales as a result. A2. Evaluation Of Flexible Budget and Variances A flexible budget is a budget that adjusts different variable costs based on the volume of activity. This budget is better than a static budget‚ because you can adjust it due to the actual needs of the company. For example‚ if we experience
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Labor rate variance is the difference between the actual labor rate and the applied overhead rate (standard rate multiplied by the number of actual hours worked). Consider this and respond to the following: • "Our workers are all under labor contracts. Therefore‚ our labor rate variance is bound to be zero." Do you agree or disagree that the labor rate variance will be zero if all workers are under labor contracts? Explain giving reasons. The concept of labor rate variance and its application
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Question 1 Stdev VAR Period 14% 0.0196 12 a) Check whether it can be asserted with 98% confidence that the underlying yearly real variance of the portfol Sigma^2= 440 Ho: sigma^2 = 440 H1: sigma^2 not = 440 Statistic 4.9 With 98% confidence Lower limit 3.05348411 Upper limit 24.7249703 With 98% confidence we cannot reject Ho since the statistic is inside the acceptance
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Assignment 1: Variance Analysis Report In order to perform a variance analysis report Jenkins calculated the actual revenues and expenses and found the difference which was $296‚610 in profits. Then Jenkins did the same with budgeted values and found the budgeted profits to be $606‚350. The variance amount in turn is $309‚960 under budget. Also‚ the variance amount for revenues is $32‚100. This number is favorable due to the fact that they made more than what they had budgeted for. But on the contrary
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1. Human resource is an example of (an): (Points : 2) Unit-level activity. Batch-level activity. Product-level activity. Organization-sustaining activity. 2. Which of the following is not a limitation of activity-based costing? (Points : 2) Maintaining an activity-based costing system is more costly than maintaining a traditional direct labor-based costing system. Changing from a traditional direct labor-based costing system to an activity-based
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Evolution Lab The finches on Darwin and Wallace Islands feed on seeds produced by plants growing on these islands. There are three categories of seeds: soft seeds‚ produced by plants that do well under wet conditions; seeds that are intermediate in hardness‚ produced by plants that do best under moderate precipitation; and hard seeds‚ produced by plants that dominate in drought conditions. Evolution Lab is based on a model for the evolution of quantitative traits–characteristics of an individual
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David Karluk Variance Analysis as defined by Finkler et al.‚ (2007)‚ is “the aspect of budgeting in which actual results are compared with budgeted expectations”(p.310). In variance analysis‚ if the actual amount is lower than that of the forecast amount than there is a positive variance. However‚ if the actual amount is higher than that of the forecast amount then the variance budget is showing negative results. The total forecast expenses for
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Stock Market Prices Do Not Follow Random Walks: Evidence from a Simple Specification Test Andrew W. Lo A. Craig MacKinlay University of Pennsylvania In this article we test the random walk hypothesis for weekly stock market returns by comparing variance estimators derived from data sampled at different frequencies. The random walk model is strongly rejected for the entire sample period (19621985) and for all subperiod for a variety of aggregate returns indexes and size-sorted portofolios. Although
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