Your manager at Goldstar received your variance report and has some questions.

Specifically, regarding your cost of goods sold variance for the year to date (YTD). They know you just finished an accounting for managers course and would like you to investigate the variance further. Make 2 - 3 very specific recommendations, integrated in with either management decision making (week 8) or budget development (week 9) and monitoring (week 10) theory on how you could proceed to investigate this issue or what information you would need.

To answer this question, you will need to refer very specifically to the Budget Variance exercise we worked on in class in week 10. There is no right or wrong answer to this question, but I will be looking for you to use specific case facts tied into detailed concepts that we have covered in class. Generic responses will not score well.