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Apportionment

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  • This topic has 3 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 8 years ago by John Moffat.
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  • May 31, 2017 at 2:58 pm #389249
    maan87
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    Hi John sir, plz have a look on the following question.

    A factory has three production departments and two service departments. P1,P2 and P3 are production departments and S1 and S2 are the service departments. Following are the budgeted overheads for each department.
    $
    P1 1200,000
    P2 2000,000
    P3 2250,000
    S2 600,000
    S2 700,000

    Actual overheads of each production department are as follow after re-apportionment of overheads from sevice departments.

    P1 1608,000
    P2 2497,000
    P3 2194,000

    Budgeted and actual overheads from service departments are reapportioned on base of following:

    P1 Machine hours basis
    P2 labour hours basis
    P3 75% of material cost

    Other information:
    Budgeted data is as follow:
    P1 60,000 machine hours
    P2 200,000 labour hours
    P3 $3000,000material cost

    Actual data is as follow:
    P1 60,500 machine hours
    P2 190,000 labour hours
    P3 $3200,000

    Services provided by S1:
    20% to P1, 30% to P2, 40% to P3 and 10% to S2.
    Sevices provided by S2:
    30% to P1, 40% to P2, 20% to P3, 10% to S1.

    Req: calculate depatment wise under/over absorbed overheads.

    Solution for P1 is given in the book is as follow.

    Absorbed FOH cost 1210,000

    (1200,000/60,000*60500)

    Actual FOH cost 1608,000
    Under absorbed by 398,000

    But my question is as follow:

    Actual overheads for production departments are the after re-apportionment from service departments (1608,000) but why we are using budgeted original FOH cost(without re-apportionment from service deptts) to calculate absorption rate (1200,000/60,000)?
    As we have learnt that to calculate FOH absorption rate for a specific deptt we allocate,apportion and then re-apportion to collect budgeted cost for that specific deptt. Is the solution is wrong or something else. Plz help me.

    May 31, 2017 at 5:49 pm #389284
    John Moffat
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    I have no idea where you found this question, but assuming that you have typed it correctly then the answer is wrong. They should have reapportioned the budgeted service department costs before determining a budgeted absorption rate for P1.

    May 31, 2017 at 8:00 pm #389323
    maan87
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    Yeah i typed the question correctly and conveyed the theme accurately. In the answer they did’t re-apportion the budgeted service centre cost to production centres to calculate absorbtion rate..oki just wanted to confirm whether i’m right…thanx for you kind guidline..

    June 1, 2017 at 6:06 am #389362
    John Moffat
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    You are right 🙂

    The answer as you have typed it is certainly wrong!

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