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【Questions】

3 Spike Co manufactures and sells good quality leather bound diaries. Each year it budgets for its profits, including

detailed budgets for sales, materials and labour. If appropriate, the departmental managers are allowed to revise their

budgets for planning errors.

In recent months, the managing director has become concerned about the frequency of budget revisions. At a recent

board meeting he said ‘There seems little point budgeting any more. Every time we have a problem the budgets are

revised to leave me looking at a favourable operational variance report and at the same time a lot less profit than

promised.’

Required:

(a) Describe the circumstances when a budget revision should be allowed and when it should be refused.

(5 marks)

Two specific situations have recently arisen, for which budget revisions were sought:

Materials

A local material supplier was forced into liquidation. Spike Co’s buyer managed to find another supplier, 150 miles

away at short notice. This second supplier charged more for the material and a supplementary delivery charge on top.

The buyer agreed to both the price and the delivery charge without negotiation. ‘I had no choice’, the buyer said, ‘the

production manager was pushing me very hard to find any solution possible!’ Two months later, another, more

competitive, local supplier was found.

A budget revision is being sought for the two months where higher prices had to be paid.

Labour

During the early part of the year, problems had been experienced with the quality of work being produced by the

support staff in the labour force. The departmental manager had complained in his board report that his team were

‘unreliable, inflexible and just not up to the job’.

It was therefore decided, after discussion of the board report, that something had to be done. The company changed

its policy so as to recruit only top graduates from good quality universities. This has had the effect of pushing up the

costs involved but increasing productivity in relation to that element of the labour force.

The support staff departmental manager has requested a budget revision to cover the extra costs involved following

the change of policy.

Required:

(b) Discuss each request for a budget revision, putting what you see as both sides of the argument and reach a

conclusion as to whether a budget revision should be allowed. (8 marks)

The market for leather bound diaries has been shrinking as the electronic versions become more widely available and

easier to use. Spike Co has produced the following data relating to leather bound diary sales for the year to date:

Budget

Sales volume 180,000 units

Sales price $17·00 per unit

Standard contribution $7·00 per unit

The total market for diaries in this period was estimated in the budget to be 1·8m units. In fact, the actual total market

shrank to 1·6m units for the period under review.

Actual results for the same period

Sales volume 176,000 units

Sales price $16·40 per unit

Required:

(c) Calculate the total sales price and total sales volume variance. (4 marks)

(d) Analyse the total sales volume variance into components for market size and market share. (4 marks)

(e) Comment on the sales performance of the business.

【Answers】

3 Spike Limited

(a) A budget forms the basis of many performance management systems. Once set, it can be compared to the actual results of

an organisation to assess performance. A change to the budget can be allowed in some circumstances but these must be

carefully controlled if abuse is to be prevented.

Allow budget revisions when something has happened that is beyond the control of the organisation which renders the original

budget inappropriate for use as a performance management tool.

These adjustments should be approved by senior management who should attempt to take an objective and independent

view.

Disallow budget revisions for operational issues. Any item that is within the operational control of an organisation should not

be adjusted.

This type of decision is often complicated and each case should be viewed on its merits.

The direction of any variance (adverse or favourable) is not relevant in this decision.

(b) Materials

Arguments in favour of allowing a revision

– The nature of the problem is outside the control of the organisation. The supplier went in to liquidation; it is doubtful

that Spike Limited could have expected this or prevented it from happening.

The buyer, knowing that budget revisions are common, is likely to see the liquidation as outside his control and hence

expect a revision to be allowed. He may see it as unjust if this is not the case and this can be demoralising.

Arguments against allowing a budget revision

– There is evidence that the buyer panicked a little in response to the liquidation. He may have accepted the first offer

that became available (without negotiation) and therefore incurred more cost than was necessary.

– A cheaper, more local supplier may well have been available, so it could be argued that the extra delivery cost need not

have been incurred. This could be said to have been an operational error.

Conclusion

The cause of this problem (liquidation) is outside the control of the organisation and this is the prime cause of the overspend.

Urgent problems need urgent solutions and a buyer should not be penalised in this case. A budget revision should be allowed.

Labour

Arguments in favour of allowing a revision

– The board made this decision, not the departmental manager. It could be argued that the extra cost on the department’s

budget is outside their control.

Arguments against allowing a budget revision

– This decision is entirely within the control of the organisation as a whole. As such, it would fall under the definition of

an operational decision. It is not usual to allow a revision in these circumstances.

– It is stated in the question that the departmental manager complained in his board report that the staff level needed

improving. It appears that he got his wish and the board could be said to have merely approved the change.

– The department will have benefited from the productivity increases that may have resulted in the change of policy. If the

department takes the benefit then perhaps they should take the increased costs as well.

Conclusion

This is primarily an operational decision that the departmental manager agreed with and indeed suggested in his board report.

No budget revision should be allowed.

An alternative view is that the board made the final decision and as such the policy change was outside the direct control of

the departmental manager. In this case a budget revision would be allowed.

(c) Total sales variances

Sales price variance = (Actual SP – Std SP) x Act sales volume

= (16·40 – 17·00) x 176,000

= $105,600 (Adverse)

Sales volume variance = (Actual sales volume – Budget sales volume) x Std contribution

= (176,000 – 180,000) x 7

= $28,000 (Adverse)

(d) Market size and share variances

Market size variance = (Revised sales volume – budget sales volume) x Std contribution

= (160,000 – 180,000) x 7

= $140,000 (Adverse)

Market share variance = (Actual sales volume – revised sales volume) x Std contribution

= (176,000 – 160,000) x 7

= $112,000 (Favourable)

(e) Comment on sales performance

Sales Price

The biggest issue seems to be the decision to reduce the sales price from $17·00 down to $16·40. This ‘lost’ $105,600 of

revenue on sales made compared to the standard price.

It seems likely that the business is under pressure on sales due to the increased popularity of electronic diaries. As such, they

may have felt that they had to reduce prices to sustain sales at even the level they achieved.

Volume

The analysis of sales volume into market size and share shows the usefulness of planning and operational variances. Overall,

the sales level of the business is down by 4,000 units, losing the business $28,000 of contribution or profit. This calculation

does not in itself explain how the sales department of the business has performed.

In the face of a shrinking market they seem to have performed well. The revised level of sales (allowing for the shrinking

market) is 160,000 units and the business managed to beat this level comfortably by selling 176,000 units in the period.

As mentioned above, the reducing price could have contributed to the maintenance of the sales level. Additionally, the

improved quality of support staff may have helped maintain the sales level. Equally the actions of competitors are relevant to

how the business has performed. If competitors have been active then merely maintaining sales could be seen as an

achievement.

Spike should be concerned that its market is shrinking.

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