Question

rede Company budgeted selling expenses of $29,700 in January, $34,300 in February, and $40,100 in March. Actual selling expenses were $31,700 in January, $33,630 in February, and $48,100 in Selling Expense Report you will lean while you earn points based on the Point Potential Policy set by your instnuctor Question Attempts: 3 of 15 used SAVE OR LATER ro Ul

Answer 1

month					Year to date
Month	Budget	Actuals	Difference		Budget	Actuals	Difference
January	29700	31700	-2000	Unfavourable	29700	31700	-2000	Unfavourable
February	34300	33630	670	Favourable	64000	65330	-1330	Unfavourable
March	40100	48100	-8000	Unfavourable	104100	113430	-9330	Unfavourable
YTD balance need to compute by adding last month or months number
Answer 22-2
Month	Budget	Actuals
January	30000	31200
February	35000	34525
March	40000	46000
Purpose of selling expenses report and its recipient
Purpose of selling expenses report is to analyze selling expenses incurred compared to budget. Senior management and sales leader's should be receipent of sales expenses
Result of management analysis report
Selling expenses are not isolated and should be seen along with the sales growth. It may have been scenario that sales expenses has exceed budget but sales has also grown.
If increase in selling expenses (Over its buget) is along with the increase in sales growth management analysis report should highlight the same.
If sales increse not in line with revenue increase management report should give reason for variance.