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Profit Improvement Planning

Profit Improvement Planning

Profit Improvement Planning

Profit Improvement Planning

By: Admin | Date: November 11, 2011 | Categories:

Cost variance analysis goes deeper into the deviations between planned and actual levels of both costs and revenues. It would highlight the cost impacts of such factors as increased raw material prices, lower labor productivity or fall in sales volumes or selling prices. It then becomes possible to investigate the specific developments that caused these.

Variance Analysis Improves Control over Business Results

Meaningful control becomes possible when you have specific standards to compare performance, and judge whether performance was up to the mark or otherwise. Budgetary control performed this task in a rudimentary manner by setting budgets and comparing actuals against the budgets. Managers were alerted by reports that indicated a deviation between the two.

Standard cost variance analysis has refined this process into a fine-tuned technique. In addition to indicating that there is a variance between estimates and actuals, it analyzes the reasons for the variance. The value of the technique is enhanced further by using carefully developed standards of performance, such as raw material usage per unit of production, prices to be paid for the raw materials and to be charged for sales, and so on.


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