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Edexcel ·Accounting·Cambridge AS & A Level Accounting

Standard Costing & Variance Analysis

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Standard costs, material, labour and sales variances, splitting variances into price/rate and usage/efficiency, and interpreting favourable and adverse variances.

Standard costing

A standard cost is a planned cost per unit. The difference between standard and actual is a variance: favourable (F) when actual is better than standard, adverse (A) when worse. Variances are split to locate the cause.

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