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I have actual cost sheets of 5 months and budgeted cost sheets of five months , and I need to calculate the variance between the actuals and the budgeted sheets at the material level. I must only keep the materials common in both the selected sets of sheets; for the rest, the variance should be considered zero.
When calculating the variance, I'm getting the correct answers for March, April, and May, but the values for January and February are incorrect. I tried calculating the variance between the actuals and bugdeted sheets separately for January and February using the same procedure.
For February, I get the correct variance, but January's value is still incorrect, though it's better than the one I got from the combined variance measure.
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