Space Infonautics senior vice president of marketing prepared his budget at the beginning of the third quarter

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Space Infonautics’ senior vice president of marketing prepared his budget at the beginning of the third quarter assuming a 25% market share based on total sales. Star Research estimated that the total handheld-organizer market would reach sales of 444,000 units worldwide in the third quarter. However, actual sales in the third quarter were 500,000 units.


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1. Calculate the market-share and market-size variances for Space Infonautics in the third quarter of 2020 (calculate all variances in terms of contribution margins).
2. Explain what happened based on the market-share and market-size variances.
3. Calculate the actual market size, in units, that would have led to no market-size variance (again using budgeted contribution margin per unit). Use this market-size figure to calculate the actual market  share that would have led to a zero market-share variance.

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