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Question #2 (20 marks) Gloria’s a food manufacturer is trying to make an assessment of its operations for the past year. The entity operates a standard marginal costing system and manufactures one product, the blaster for which the following standard revenue and cost data per unit of product is available: Selling price $24.00 Direct material A 2.5 kg at $3.40 per kg Direct material B 1.5 kg at $2.40 per kg Direct labour 0.45 hrs. at $12.00 per hour Actual data for the twelve-month period was as follows: Sales and production 48,000 units of the blaster were produced and sold for $1,161,600 Direct material A 121,950 kg were used at a cost of $402,435 Direct material B 67,200 kg were used at a cost of $168,000 Direct labour Employees worked for 18,900 hours, but 19,200 hours were paid at a cost of $234,240 Budgeted sales for the period were 50,000 units of Product Blaster. A recession last year meant that the market for the product declined by 5%. Required: (a) Calculate the following variances. (i) Sales volume variance. (2 marks) (ii) Planning and operational variances for sales volume. (4 marks) ( iii) Price, mix and yield variances for each material. (10 marks) (b) Suggest two possible explanations for the material price and yield variances calculated in part (a). (4 marks)