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Standard costing

9.1 Variance investigation

Factors to consider include the following:

 the size/significance of the variance

 whether favourable/adverse – firms often treat adverse variances as more
important than favourable

 correction costs versus benefits

 ability to correct

 past pattern

 budget reliability

 reliability of measurement/recording systems.

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