What are the two basic requirements of an internal control


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A fast food restaurant has only three items on its menu.
a. Calculate the food cost percentage.
b. Calculate the standard food cost percentage if 50 of each are sold
c. Calculate the standard food cost percentage if sales are 25, 100, 25 units
d. Compute the contribution margin in each case

Formula for standard food cost percentage:

Analysis: Which scenario would you find more advantageous and why?

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A coffee shop has only six items on its menu.
a. Compute the cost %, total standard cost, total standard revenue and total standard contribution for each item.

b. Calculate the total standard cost percentage, the actual cost percentage and actual contribution for this month.

Compare the actual cost percentage with the standard cost percentage.
If you were the manager would you be satisfied with these results?

Question:

A fast food restaurant has five items on its menu.

a. Compute the total standard cost, total standard revenue and total standard contribution for each item

b. Calculate the overall cost %

c. Compare actual to standard results

Analysis: In the next week many more of Item 4 and many fewer of Item 1 were sold.
(Other items were sold in the same quantities as this week.) Can you explain what then happened with the food cost percentage?

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