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  • June 29, 2016 at 9:57 am #324377
    adarsh1997
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    Dear sir,
    Is there any example on cash budget in the free lecture notes?

    Thanks.

    June 29, 2016 at 2:35 pm #324390
    adarsh1997
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    1.Budgeted sales of x is 18,000 units.
    At the end of the production process for x, 10% of production units are scrapped as defective.
    Opening inventory are budgeted to be 15,000 units
    Closing inventory are budgeted to be 11,400 units

    The answer in the BPP book is D, 16,000 units

    -“10% of production units are scrapped as defective.” What does this mean and how to deal with that?
    – How did they obtain the answer?

    2.Budgeted production in a factory for next period is 4,800 units. Each unit requires 5 labour hour to make. Labour is paid $10 per hour. Idle time represents 20% of the total labour time. What is the budgeted total labour cost for the next period?

    The answer is D, $300,000

    -“Idle time represents 20% of the total labour time.” What does this mean and how to deal with that?
    -How did they obtain the answer?

    June 29, 2016 at 3:34 pm #324397
    John Moffat
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    1. They need good production of 18,000 – 15,000 + 11,400 = 14,400 units.

    Since 10% are scrapped, the good production must be 90% of the total production.
    So the total production = 14,400 / 90% = 16,000 units.

    June 29, 2016 at 3:36 pm #324398
    John Moffat
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    2. Since 20% of the time paid is idle (i.e. not working) only 80% is actually working.
    Therefore to have 5 hours working, they need to pay for 5/80% = 6.25 hours for every unit.
    So each unit costs 6.25 x $10 = $62.50.

    July 25, 2016 at 12:23 pm #328910
    adarsh1997
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    Dear sir,
    I do have watched your free lectures. Can you briefly,in wordings, explain why, concerning material and production budget closing stock is added and opening stock is subtracted?

    July 25, 2016 at 6:13 pm #329045
    John Moffat
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    If you expect to sell 1,000 units and there is no change in inventory, then you will obviously produce 1,000 units.
    If however you expect to sell 1,000 units and also intend to increase your inventory by 100 units, then you need to produce 1,100 units. (the 100 increase in inventory is adding the closing inventory and subtracting the opening inventory).

    July 25, 2016 at 7:03 pm #329085
    adarsh1997
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    Thank you sir
    By the way, is master budget in the syllabus of f2?

    July 26, 2016 at 6:32 am #329122
    John Moffat
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    Knowledge of what it is is in the syllabus (and is covered in my free lectures).
    You cannot be asked to prepare one.

    July 28, 2016 at 1:59 pm #329995
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    Dear sir,
    1.In the BPP book, the word ‘no production resource limitations’ is mentioned.
    What does this mean?

    2.What is a fixed budget?

    3.What is ‘budget cost allowance’?

    July 28, 2016 at 2:44 pm #330004
    John Moffat
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    1. It means there is no limit on the number of units that they can produce.

    2. It is explained in my free lectures ( in the lecture “budgeting; example 2”)

    3 “budget cost allowance” is not a standard term, so it depends on the context in which it is written.

    July 28, 2016 at 6:24 pm #330025
    adarsh1997
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    1.Raw materials=3kg at $2 per kg
    Direct labour= 4hrs at $7 per hour

    Production units:
    May is 8,400
    June is 8,200

    Opening inventory of Raw materials is:
    May 4,200 kg
    June 4,100 kg

    Closing inventory of Raw materials is:
    June is 3,900 kg

    what is the figure included in the cash budget for June for payment for purchases?

    -In the BPP book, in the answer, there is a comment where it says that “Payment in June will be in respect of May purchases.” Why so because in the question nowhere it is mentioned that purchases made in May will be paid in June. Could you help me please?

    2. Budget production:
    -2,000 units
    -3,000 units

    Production cost:
    $11,100
    $12,900

    What is the budget allowance for an activity level of 4,000 units?
    -Could explain what this allowance means and also give me the answer

    Thanks.

    July 29, 2016 at 7:24 am #330081
    John Moffat
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    1. I have the question in the BPP book in front of me, and it clearly states “Material purchases are paid for in the month after purchase”

    2. What they want is to know how many $’s you would budget for production of 4,000 units. You need to use the high low method, and the answer must be in your book.

    July 30, 2016 at 8:16 am #330239
    adarsh1997
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    Thank you sir 😉

    July 30, 2016 at 8:22 am #330257
    John Moffat
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    You are welcome 🙂

    July 30, 2016 at 4:19 pm #330289
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    A company anticipates that 10000 units of product z will be sold during January . Each unit z requires 2 litres of raw material w . Actual stocks as of 1 January and budieted inventories as of 31 January are as follows:
    1 January 31 Jan.
    Product z( units) 14000 12000

    Raw material w (litres)20000 15000

    Cost of 1 litre of w $4.
    If the company pays for all purchases in the month of acquisition , what is the cash outlay for January purchase of w?

    July 31, 2016 at 8:48 am #330357
    John Moffat
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    Please do not simply set test questions here and expect an answer.

    You must have an answer in the same book in which you found the question, and you should ask about whatever is causing you a problem understanding the answer.

    You need to adjust the sales of Z by the opening and closing inventories of Z in order to find out how many units are actually produced.
    You then multiply by 2 to determine how many litres of W are needed for the production.
    You then adjust this by the opening and closing inventory of W to calculate how many litres are purchased.
    Multiplying this by $4 gives you the cash outlay.

    Have you watched my free lectures on budgeting?

    (Our lectures are a complete free course for Paper F2 and cover everything needed to be able to pass the exam well)

    August 1, 2016 at 7:40 am #330545
    iyamu
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    Thank you sir .

    August 1, 2016 at 1:39 pm #330669
    John Moffat
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    You are welcome 🙂

    August 15, 2016 at 1:33 pm #333296
    adarsh1997
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    J makes component M uses 3 kg of raw materials of X
    -Opening inventory of raw material x is 5,000 at $4
    Opening inventory of component M is 3,000 units

    Budgeted sales are expected to be 48,000 units(occurring eventually during the year)

    -closing inventory of raw material x is one month worrth’s of production
    closing inventory of component M is two month worth of sales

    -What is the material purchase budget in $?
    In the BPP book, the answer is 162,000 kg
    How to obtain the answer?
    Working done in the book are done without any explanation; making it difficult to understand how to obtain certain figure

    August 15, 2016 at 4:23 pm #333345
    John Moffat
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    The answer to this question is wrong – best is to ignore it 🙂

    August 29, 2016 at 1:28 pm #335988
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    Q manufactures a single product and an extract from it’s flexed budget for production cost is as follows:

    -Activity level 80%
    Direct material $2,400
    Labour $2120
    Production overhead $4,060

    -Activity level 90%
    Direct material $2,700
    Labour $2,160
    Production overhead $4,080

    What would the total cost allowance be in a budget at 83% level of activity?
    The answer is $8,688

    -What does “cost allowance be in a budget”?
    -How to obtain the answer?

    August 29, 2016 at 1:52 pm #336021
    John Moffat
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    Material is a variable cost and so you can calculate the cost per %.

    Labour and overheads are both semi-variable and so you can use the high-low method to calculate the variable cost per % and the fixed cost.

    Then you can calculate what the total costs will be at the budgeted 83% – this is the total cost that you will put in the budget (which is what the cost allowance will be in the budget).

    September 13, 2016 at 7:09 am #340294
    adarsh1997
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    Dear sir,
    Concerning flexed and actual budget, when we use the absorption costing approach, we value inventory at standard cost.
    If we use a marginal costing approach, then how we would value inventory?(in the flexed and actual budget)

    September 13, 2016 at 10:26 am #340311
    John Moffat
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    With absorption costing we value at the standard absorption cost.

    When using marginal costing we value the inventory at the standard marginal cost.

    September 16, 2016 at 12:18 pm #340719
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    Dear sir,
    In your previous reply, you have said that “Material is a variable cost and so you can calculate the cost per %”

    Could you explain how direct material is a variable cost?

    Thanks.

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