Question

Milltown Company specializes in selling used cars. During the month, the dealership sold 32 cars at an average price of $16,000 each. The budget for the month was to sell 30 cars at an average price of $17,000. Compute the dealership's sales price variance for the month.

Answer 1

-$32,000

Step-by-step explanation:

The sales price variance is a measure used determine the difference between an entity's expected price of a product or service and its actual sales price. It may be favorable or unfavourable to the company and may be calculated as

Sales price variance = Actual quantity sold * (actual selling price - budgeted selling price)

Hence given that the dealership sold 32 cars at an average price of $16,000 each while the budget was to sell 30 cars at an average price of $17,000,

Sales price variance = 32 ($16,000 - $17,000)

= -$32,000

The minus indicates unfavourable sales price variance