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accounting for labour

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  • July 23, 2016 at 9:28 am #328473
    adarsh1997
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    Jane works as a member of three person team in the assembly department of a factory. The team rewarded by the group bonus where the team leader receives 40% of any bonus earned by the team and the remaining bonus is shared evenly between Jane and the other team member.

    Hour worked by team 8 hours
    Team production achieved 80 units
    standard time allowed to produce one unit= 9 minutes
    Group bonus payable at $6 per hour= 70% of saved time

    What is the bonus element of Jane’s pay?
    The answer is $5.04. How to reach this answer?
    In the BPP book the workings are a bit complicated.

    July 23, 2016 at 10:45 am #328486
    John Moffat
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    The standard time for 80 units is 80 x 9/60 = 12 hours.

    The actually time was 8 hours, so they save 4 hours, so the total bonus is 70% x 4 x $6 = $16.80.
    The leader of the time gets 40%, so Jane gets half of the remaining 60%.

    1/2 x 60% x $16.80 = $5.04

    July 28, 2016 at 7:03 pm #330031
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    1.”70% of the saved time”. What does this mean?

    2. what is the accounting entries for wages costs?

    July 29, 2016 at 7:25 am #330082
    John Moffat
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    1. The save time is the difference between the actual time and the standard time.

    2. The accounting entries are not relevant for Paper F2.

    July 30, 2016 at 10:02 am #330260
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    1. Basic pay is $70,800
    Overtime premium is $2,000
    Holiday pay $500
    Gross wages incurred $73,300

    -What is the accounting entries for these wages costs?
    DR WIP $70,800
    DR overhead control $2,500
    CR wages control account $73,300

    2. In a typical cost ledger, what is the double entry for indirect labour cost incurred?
    DR overhead control
    CR Wages control

    -For these two exercises, could you explain briefly what does the double entry mean?

    July 30, 2016 at 2:25 pm #330273
    John Moffat
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    1. The basic pay is a direct cost of production, so debit the WIP account.
    The overtime premium and the holiday pay are indirect costs, and so debit overheads.

    2 The same as in (1) because they are indirect costs

    August 2, 2016 at 3:33 pm #330881
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    1. Why Idle time is treated as an indirect cost?

    August 2, 2016 at 3:41 pm #330888
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    Because it is not time spent directly working on production (and because it is the rule!!)

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