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- June 3, 2017 at 4:45 am #389827
Hi Sir/Madam,
I have just done a question on the study book of BPP (2017 version, page 466) about the thoughput accounting. Here is the question:
F Co makes and sells two products, A and B, each of which passes through the same automated production operations. The following estimated information is available for period 1.
Product unit dataDirect material cost of A and B are $2 and $40 respectively
Variable production overhead cost ($) of A and B are $28 and $4 respectively
Original estimates of production/sales of products A and B are 120,000 units and 45,000 units respectively. The selling prices per unit for A and B are $60 and $70 respectively.Maximum demand for each product is 20% above the estimated sales levels.
Total fixed production overhead cost is $1,470,000. This is absorbed by products A and B at an average rate per hour based on the estimated production levels.One of the production operations has a maximum capacity of 3,075 hours which has been identified as a bottleneck, limiting the overall estimated production/sales of products A and B. The bottleneck hours required per product unit for products A and B are 0.02 and 0.015 respectively
Required:
If F Co choose to prioritise the manufacture of Product A, calculate the value (in $) of the maximum net profit using throughput analysis.
The result that I find out is $ 3,188,000. But the answer of BPP is $ 3,732,000. The reason for different in my result is due to the production levels I used to calculate the overhead cost. I used the production level to maximise the profit, but BPP used the production level of estimated production/sales (120,000 and 45,000). Can you help me to explain why uses the estimated production here.
Thank you so much for any helping from teacher and other people!
June 3, 2017 at 9:34 am #389877The whole point of throughput accounting is that we assume all costs except for materials are fixed.
Therefore as far as the variable overheads are concerned, whatever total was originally budgeted will stay the same in total regardless of how many are actually produced. Since the original costings were based on production of 120,000 and 45,000, then total variable overheads are calculated on these figures.
I do suggest that you watch my free lectures on throughput accounting, because I do stress this point in the lectures.
(The lectures are a complete free course for Paper F5 and cover everything needed to be able to pass the exam well.)
June 3, 2017 at 1:43 pm #389922Thank you so much for your helping!
June 3, 2017 at 5:17 pm #389971You are very welcome 🙂
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