Budgeting part 3 – ACCA Management Accounting (MA)
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hello sir! I am a bit confused about what is flexible budget. is it the same as fixed budget but in a way that fixed budget should be such that it’s easy to flex?
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Kindly answer this question. Since the example states we should use the marginal costing approach, why did we include the fixed overheads in the costing? Doesn’t marginal costing only deal with variable production costs?
No – that is not true.
The profit is after charging all costs whichever method of costing is used.
With marginal costing we do not absorb the fixed overheads into the cost per unit – only the variable costs – and then subtract all the fixed costs for the period from the contribution to arrive at the profit.
With absorption costing we do absorb the fixed overheads into the cost per unit (but as a result, we are likely to have over or under absorbed the overheads and need to adjust).
I explain all of this in my free lectures on marginal and absorption costing.
Sir, so what effect does the statement : “use marginal costing approach” have here in the working of the question ?
In future you must ask this kind of question in the Ask the Tutor Forum, and not as a comment on a lecture.
If at the moment they are using 75% of the capacity, then the total capacity is 60,000/75% = 80,000.
Therefore to make 100,000 they will still pay the rent of 90,000 but in addition, for the extra 20,000 units they will have to pay 90,000/80,000 per unit.
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Hi sir, can u guide me through this question ? A company rents its factory for $90,000 per annum. This year 60,000 units have been manufactured in the factory utilising 75% of its total capacity. Next year the plan is to manufacture 100,000 units by using the existing factory at full capacity and by renting just sufficient additional capacity. The additional capacity is available at the same rental cost per square metre as the existing factory.
What is the budgeted total rental cost for next year?
The answer is 112500
You probably won’t need the answer now but for anyone else..
60 = 3/4 so 1/4 is 20 x 4 = 80 which is 100%
I assume the ratio is rent to units made so 90 k / 80k = 9/8 x 100,000 = 112500