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budgeted profit using a marginal costing system

Forums › Ask ACCA Tutor Forums › Ask the Tutor ACCA MA – FIA FMA › budgeted profit using a marginal costing system

  • This topic has 8 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 9 years ago by John Moffat.
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  • November 23, 2016 at 10:16 pm #351078
    Jegan
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    Dear John or somebody else

    I have my F2 exam this Thursday 24/11/16.

    I have a question on budgeted profit.

    This is from an exam paper from my tuition provider:

    Q Co. has the following budgeted information available:

    Cost/unit
    Direct Material $24
    Direct Labour $28
    Variable overhead $19

    Fixed overheads are expected to be $500000. The following inventory information is also
    available:

    Units
    Opening inventory 4,800
    Production 48,000
    Sales 50,000

    Using a marginal costing system, what is the budgeted profit if selling price per unit is
    $115?

    It says in the solutions that the answer is $1,700,000.

    I am not sure how to work this out.

    Can someone help me please on short notice. I would really appreciate it. Thanks :).

    Jegan

    November 23, 2016 at 11:35 pm #351082
    mikuz
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    Sales – ($115 x 50000) 5750 000
    Less : cost of production
    Opening inventory – 4800 x $71 : $340800
    Materials – 48000 x $24 : 340800
    Labour – 48000 x $28 : 1344000
    Variable overheads – 48000 x $19 : 912000
    Total ———–$3748800
    Less : Closing inventory – 2800 x $71 : ($198800)
    —————–$3550000
    Contribution ———– $2200000
    Less fixed overheads ——-$500000
    Marginal profit $1700000

    November 24, 2016 at 4:34 am #351120
    John Moffat
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    mikuz: Thank you for the answer (although you have done it a very long way round!), but please don’t answer in this forum, because it is Ask the Tutor Forum (but please do help people in the other F2 forum)

    jegan: The contribution per unit = 115 – (24 + 28 + 19) = $44

    They sell 50,000 units, so the total contribution = 50,000 x 44 = 2,200,000

    The fixed overheads are 500,000, to the profit = 2,200,000 – 500,000 = 1,700,000

    (I do suggest that you watch my free lectures on marginal and absorption costing! The lectures are a complete free course for Paper F2 and cover everything needed to be able to pass the exam well.)

    November 24, 2016 at 7:15 am #351133
    mikuz
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    Alright

    November 24, 2016 at 2:54 pm #351190
    John Moffat
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    Thanks 🙂

    November 24, 2016 at 5:16 pm #351227
    Jegan
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    Thank you John sir and Mikuz,

    Much appreciated. I passed my F2 exam today with a mark of 70%.

    I would like to thank Opentuition for the excellent resources available 🙂

    Jegan

    November 25, 2016 at 6:56 am #351327
    John Moffat
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    Congratulations on passing (and with such a good mark) – that is great news 🙂

    November 25, 2016 at 10:44 am #351380
    Jegan
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    Thank you sir.

    November 25, 2016 at 2:36 pm #351432
    John Moffat
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    You are welcome 🙂

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