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Pliant pic produces cars and motorbikes. The company is split into four different divisions:

Car sales division - this department's manager has been given responsibility for selling the cars, as well as keeping control of the division's costs.

Motorbike sales division - this department's manager has been given responsibility for selling the motorbikes as well as controlling divisional costs. In addition, he has been told to plan what assets he should purchase for the coming year.

Manufacturing division - this division makes the cars and bikes and passes them to the finishing division. The divisional manager is only responsible for controlling the division's costs.

Finishing division - this division tests the cars and cleans them ready to be sold. They transfer the goods to the sales divisions and charge the sales divisions a set price, which is set by the finishing division's manager. The manager is also responsible for managing the division’s costs as well as the investment in divisional assets.Are these centres being operated as a cost, profit or investment centre?

Division Cost centre Profit centre Investment centre

Car sales

Motorbike sales

Manufacturing

Finishing

Chapter4Costclassification

Division Cost centre Profit centre Investment centre

Car sales 对

Motorbike sales 对

Manufacturing 对

Finishing 对

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What does an adverse variable overhead efficiency variance indicate and what might be the cause?

Explain briefly the possible causes of

(i) A favourable material usage variance

(ii) A favourable labour rate variance

(iii) An adverse sales volume contribution variance.

What is the relationship between the labour efficiency variance and the variable overhead efficiency variance? Why might the monetary value be different?

Explain the meaning and relevance of interdependence of variances when reporting to managers.

A balanced scorecard measures performance 什om four perspectives: customer satisfaction, growth, financial success and process efficiency. Briefly explain these processes.

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