Darwin Company provides management services for apartments and rental units, In general, Darwin

packages its services into two groups: basic and complete. The basic package includes advertising vacant
units, showing potential renters through them and collecting monthly rent and remitting it to the owner.
The complete package adds maintenance of units and bookkeeping to the basic package. Packages are
priced on a per rental unit basis. Actual results from last year are as follows

Basic Complete

Sales (rental units) 600 400

Selling price $240 $480

Variable expenses $65 $200

Darwin had budgeted the following amounts

Basic Complete

Sales (units) 625 375

Selling price $220 $500

Variable expenses $70 $200

Required:

(i) Calculate the contribution margin variance

(ii) Calculate the contribution margin volume variance
(iii) Calculate the sales mix variance
Goutam Limited produces and sells gel-filled ice packs. Goutam performance report for April follows,

Actual Budgeted

Units sold 50,000 60,000

Sales $350,000 $435,000

Variable costs $225,000 $285,000

Contribution margin $125,000 $150,000

Market size in units 1,000,000 1,200,000

Required:

(i) Calculate the contribution margin variance and the contribution margin volume
variance.
(ii) Calculate the market share variance and the market size variance.

Data for Alsace Limited are as follows;

Budgeted price $13.00

Actual price $14.30

Budgeted quantity 1,200

Actual quantity sold 1,225

Required:

(i) Calculate the sales price variance

(ii) Calculate the price volume variance