CIMA Related Exams
BA2 Exam
During the first financial period of this year a company posted profit of £340,000. However, their overheads were over absorbed by £20,000 in this period. As a result they tried to update their absorption rate for the current
period and as such they ended up under absorbing their overheads by £12,000.
They have also reported a sales volume increase of 550 when comparing this period to last.
You have been given the following information on unit cost/prices:
Selling price = £95 per unit
Variable production cost per unit = £15
Variable selling cost per unit = £18
Fixed overhead per unit = £8
They have asked you to reconcile their profit between periods.
Based on the information you have been given, what is their profit for the current period?
Data for the latest period for a company which makes and sells a single product are as follows:

There were no budgeted or actual changes in inventories during the period.
The sales volume contribution variance for the period was:
Refer to the exhibit.

SL manufactures a single product, the cost and selling price of which are given below:
Fixed overheads per unit are based on a budgeted production volume of 25,000 units.
Budgeted sales are assumed to be 25,000 units.
If all costs increase by 5% but selling price remains the same, by how much must sales change from the budgeted volume to achieve the same budgeted profit?