(Solution) - Kessla Taub manages the marketing department at Electronic Villa -(2025 Original AI-Free Solution)

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Kessla Taub manages the marketing department at Electronic Village. Company management has been concerned about the sales of three products and has informed Taub that, regardless of other sales, her performance in 2010 will be evaluated on whether she has met the sales budget for the following items:

Actual sales for these three products, generated in 2010, were as follows:



a. For 2010, compute the sales price variances by product.
b. For 2010, compute the sales volume variances by product.
c. Assuming that the variances computed in (a) and (b) are controllable by Taub, discuss what actions she may have taken to cause actual results to deviate from budgeted results.
d. What problems might be caused by the manner in which Taub was evaluated during2010?