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Accounting for labour

Forums › Ask ACCA Tutor Forums › Ask the Tutor ACCA MA – FIA FMA › Accounting for labour

  • This topic has 3 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 4 years ago by John Moffat.
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  • May 18, 2017 at 7:00 pm #386886
    ririreeds
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    Budgeted and actual production data for the year that has just ended are as follows
    Budgeted production. Actual prod

    Product. Units standard machine hours. Units

    W. 15000 3000. 12000
    X. 20000. 8000. 25000
    Y. 14000. 7000. 16000
    Z. 60000. 9000. 5000

    Total machine hours worked in the period amounted to 29000 hours

    What is the capacity and efficiency ratio in the year as a percentage to one decimal place?

    Budgeted hours = 3000 + 8000+ 7000+ 9000= 27000
    Capacity ratio = 29000/27000 * 100%= 107.4

    This one is okey understand it but the efficiency ratio am not clear how the got the standard hours of actual production this is how they worked out the efficiency ratio

    Product. Units STANDARD HOURS
    W. 12000. *0.2 2400
    X. 25000. *0.4 10000
    Y. 16000. *0.5. 8000
    Z. 5000 *1.5. 7500
    27900 total
    Efficiency ratio= standard hours produced /actual hours worked = 27900/29000*100%
    How did they work out the standard hours ???

    May 19, 2017 at 6:53 am #386945
    John Moffat
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    For W, you know that for 15,000 units, the standard hours are 3,000 hours.
    For the actual production of 12,000 units, the standard hours are therefore 12,000 x 3,000/15,000 = 2,400 hours.
    Do the same for each of the products, and add them up 🙂

    (I think you have mistyped the actual units for Z – it should be 50,000 (not 5,000).)

    August 6, 2020 at 5:45 pm #579456
    Adit227
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    sir, the thing is if I do a gradually calculation like if I calculate hours required per unit by dividing total standard hours by total standard unit and then multiplying the same with actual units producing and then proceeding the question from there then I am getting a different result. why? please tell me.

    August 6, 2020 at 10:07 pm #579480
    John Moffat
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    I do not know why you are getting a different result. Type out your workings and then I will be able to explain (appreciating that the original post mistyped the number of units of Z – it should be 50,000 and not 5,000 as I explained in my reply).

    I do assume that you have bought a Revision Kit from one of the ACCA approved publishers (BPP and Kaplan). If not then it is essential that you do because it is full of past exam and other exam standard questions, and question practice is vital to passing the exam.

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