Kaffee Ltd has the following standard cost.

	Notes	Standard
Sales revenue		£16
Direct material	£5 per kg	£5
Direct labour	£4 per hour	£8

Budgeted fixed costs were £3,000 and sales in units 4,000 units

2,200 units were sold and the actual results for these sales were:

	Notes	Actual
Total Sales revenue		£57,200
Direct materials	4,400kg	£13,200
Direct labour	2,200 hours	£17,600

Actual fixed costs were £7,000.

3a) Calculate the materials and labour sub-variances using the above information.  Then explain each variance.	14 marks
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3b) State whether the following statements are true or false. If FALSE explain why.	13 marks
‘When doing variance analysis it is only necessary to compare the flexed and actual budgets.’
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‘A favourable sales price variance can only be caused by the price per unit being greater than the budgeted price per unit.’
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‘A favourable material usage variance can only be caused by materials being of better quality than budgeted.’
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‘Only significant adverse variances should be investigated.’
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‘If a total materials or labour variance equals zero, it does not need to be investigated as the budgeted figure is the same as the actual figure’.
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‘An adverse fixed overhead variance can simply be explained as spending too much on overheads, it does not need to be investigated further’.
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3d) To what degree do you consider variance analysis to be a useful business tool.	5 marks
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