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Cost & pricing
Standard costing
Setting an expected cost per unit (materials, labour, overhead) and reporting actuals as variances from it, so a factory or delivery team can be managed by exception.
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In practice
Standards go stale. Reset them yearly, or the variances measure last year's prices rather than this year's performance.
The kind of thing the test asks
- Standard material cost per unit was set two years ago. Every month shows an unfavorable price variance. The fix is…
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