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Describe two approaches used to compute variances

      

Describe two approaches used to compute variances

  

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1. Traditional Approaches

Management focuses mainly on change in prices and inputs. Seeks to explain the change in profits i.e change in revenues and change in costs. We seek to explain changes in output prices and change in output quantities.
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Types of Output Variances
Labour - Labour rate variance
- Labour efficiency variance

Materials- Material price variance
- Material usage variance

Overheads - Variable overhead rate variance
- Variable overhead efficiency variance
- Fixed overhead variance – volume variance
- Capacity variance
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