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  • September 3, 2017 at 6:46 am #405089
    corinamirela
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    Hi,

    I have the following question which is from a B section:

    ‘ABC Ltd has a single production process for which the following costs have been estimated for the period ending 31 December 2010:
    $
    Material receipt and inspection costs 15,600
    Power costs 19,500
    Material handling costs 13,650

    Three products – X, Y, and Z are produced by workers who perform a number of operations on material blanks using hand held electrically powered drills. The workers are paid £4 per hour.

    The following budgeted information has been obtained for the period ending 31 December 2009:

    Product X Product Y Product Z

    Production quantity (units) 2,000 1,500 800
    Batches of Material 10 5 16
    Data per product unit:
    Direct material (square metres) 4 6 3
    Direct material cost (£) 5 3 6
    Direct labour (minutes) 24 40 60
    No. of power drill operations 6 3 2

    Overhead costs for material receipt and inspection, process power and material handling are presently each absorbed by product units using rates per direct labour hour.

    An activity based costing investigation has revealed that the cost drivers for the overhead costs are as follows:
    Material receipt and inspection: Number of batches of material
    Process power: Number of power drill operations
    Material handling: Quantity of material (square metres) handled

    the question are as follows;

    21.What is power cost of each unit of z?
    A. 1.26
    B. 2.16
    C. 3.16
    D. None of the above

    22.What is process power cost of each unit of Y?
    A. 3.24
    B. 2.34
    C. 4.32
    D. None of the above

    23.What is overheads per unit of X using Absorption costing

    A. $14
    B. $12
    C. $28
    D. None of the above

    24.What is material handling cost of each unit of Z?
    A. $2.10
    B. $1.20
    C. $3.0
    D. None of the above

    The answers are 21B 22A 23D 24A but I don’t know how they got to those answers as my calculations are quite different.

    For example, for 21 I considered 19500/(6+3+2)= 1772.72*2 =3545.45/800=4.43?

    Please help me.

    Thank you
    Corina

    September 3, 2017 at 11:53 am #405146
    John Moffat
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    Sorry, but you need to watch my free lectures on ABC and you cannot expect me to type them all out here (which is what I would be doing to answer your question).

    For question 21, you need to get the cost per power operation, which means dividing by the total number of operations which is (2,000 x 6) + (1,500 x 3) + (800 x 2).
    Then you can calculate the cost per unit.

    Again – you really need to watch my free lectures!

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