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absorption marginal costing

Forums › Ask ACCA Tutor Forums › Ask the Tutor ACCA MA – FIA FMA › absorption marginal costing

  • This topic has 10 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 10 years ago by AvatarJohn Moffat.
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  • October 16, 2015 at 4:14 pm #276684
    Avatarmujahidaslam
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    sir if we are given sales and production in units plus oppening inventory n units how can we calculate profit in dollars using both absorption and marginal costing please explain?? and no other information is available except this how can we calcuate then??
    thankyou

    October 17, 2015 at 9:05 am #276770
    AvatarJohn Moffat
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    If there is no other information then you cannot calculate the profit. You need to know the sales price per unit and the costs per unit.
    (If you are referring to one of the test questions at the end of the chapter in the course notes, then it does not ask you to actually calculate the profits).

    October 17, 2015 at 11:48 am #276795
    Avatarmujahidaslam
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    Thank you so much sir ur replies are really helping 🙂

    October 17, 2015 at 3:20 pm #276881
    AvatarJohn Moffat
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    You are welcome 🙂

    October 20, 2015 at 2:20 pm #277836
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    A company manufactures two products, X and Y, in a factory divided into two production cost centres, Primary and Finishing. The following budgeted data are available:

    Cost centre Primary Finishing
    Allocated and
    Apportioned fixed $96,000 $82,500
    Overheads costs.

    Direct labour mins per unit
    Product X 36 25
    Product Y 48 35

    Budgeted production is 6,000 units of product X and 7,500 units of product Y. Fixed overhead costs are to be absorbed on a direct labour hour basis.
    What is the budgeted fixed overhead cost per unit for product Y?

    A $11
    B $12
    C $14
    D $15

    October 20, 2015 at 2:25 pm #277838
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    These are the values that come under these cost centres:
    Primary
    96,000
    36
    48

    Finishing
    82,500
    25
    35

    October 20, 2015 at 6:39 pm #277905
    AvatarJohn Moffat
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    Please start a new thread when it is a new topic. This is not absorption and marginal costing!

    Are there no answers in the book in which you found the questions? It is more sensible if you ask about whatever problem you have with the answer in the book, rather than just expect me to provide an answer!

    The total time worked in the Primary cost centre is (6,000 x 36/60) + (7,500 x 48/60) = 9,600 hours.
    So the absorption rate for the Primary cost centre is 96,000/9,600 = $10 per hour.

    In the same way you can calculate the absorption rate for the Finishing cost centre.

    The cost per unit for product Y will be (48/60 hours x $10) + (35/60 hours x the absorption rate per hour for the finishing cost centre).

    I do suggest that you watch the free lectures on Overheads. Our lectures are a complete course covering everything you need to be able to pass Paper F2 well.

    October 21, 2015 at 4:44 am #277969
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    Sorry for the inconvenience, I needed it’s solution. Thanks for the help. Could you please tell where I can find more questions like these.

    October 21, 2015 at 8:01 am #277999
    AvatarJohn Moffat
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    There are questions at the end of each chapter of our free Lecture notes.
    In addition there is an online test on this website – it selects 20 questions at random from a large bank of questions. So each time you attempt it you are likely to get different questions.

    However, you must buy a Revision Kit from one of the ACCA approved publishers. They contain lots of exam standard questions to practice on, and you really should not risk attempting the exam without having practiced every question in your Revision Kit.

    October 21, 2015 at 7:28 pm #278255
    Avatar@47@
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    I can’t find the online tests. Could u please paste the link to this test here. And I am using BPP revision kit but there aren’t a lot of questions in it.

    October 22, 2015 at 7:36 am #278319
    AvatarJohn Moffat
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    https://opentuition.com/acca/f3/f3-revision-mock-exam/

    (There really are more than enough questions in the BPP Kit 🙂 )

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