The following information is available for a single product: Units produced 500 Time taken 200 hours Maximum time available 200 hours Materials purchased 1,000 kg costing $3,000 Materials used 800 kg Labour costs $2,000 Overheads $1,500 Sales $9,000.
What is the throughput accounting ratio for this product?
1. The answer is 1.70 2. Material purchased rather than material used has been used to calculate throughput. – Could you explain why?
Because we should use the material purchased. (Throughput does assume no inventories of material are held and so in a ‘perfect world’ the material used and purchased would be the same anyway)
However it is a minor point and unlikely to be relevant in the exam.
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