Match the variance to what it isolates
Exercise and reference answers
- Matching pairs
- Left
- Material price
- Right
- Paying a different price per unit
- Left
- Material usage
- Right
- Consuming a different quantity
- Left
- Labour rate
- Right
- Paying a different wage rate
- Left
- Labour efficiency
- Right
- Taking different hours to finish
- Instructions
- Tap a variance, then the single difference it measures.
Explanation
_Source: ICAI CA Inter Cost and Management Accounting, Ch13, 13.7.1 (A) and (B)_