FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
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Author: Libby
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The Greensboro Performing Arts Center (GPAC) has a total capacity of 8,500 seats: 2,300 center seats, 2,800 side seats, and 3,400 balcony seats. The budgeted and actual tickets sold for a Broadway musical show are as follows:

 

  Ticket Price Percentage Occupied
Budgeted Seats Actual Seats
Center $ 80 80% 85%
Side 70 70 75
Balcony 60 75 65

 

The actual ticket prices were the same as those budgeted. Once a show has been booked, the total cost does not vary with the total attendance.

 

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Compute the following for the show (each different seat section):

 

1. The budgeted and actual sales mix percentages for different types of seats.

2. The budgeted average contribution margin per seat. Assume the ticket price is also the contribution margin.

3-a. The total sales mix variance.

3-b. The total sales quantity variance.

4. The total sales volume variance.

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