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Budgeting Labour Hours Revision Kit Page 68 Qn 16.10

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  • This topic has 3 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 11 years ago by John Moffat.
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  • February 16, 2015 at 10:39 pm #228719
    Ruksar
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    Hello Sir

    Kindly help me out on this question:

    A company manufactures a single product M. Budgeted production output of product M during August is 200 units. Each unit of product M requires 6 labour hours for completion and PR Co anticipates 20 per cent idle time. labour is paid at a rate of $7 per hour. what is the direct labour cost budget for August?

    my qsn is that in the answer they have used 25% of active time instead of 20% of total time. i dont understand why?

    please help.

    thanks

    February 17, 2015 at 7:22 am #228763
    John Moffat
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    Just suppose that they paid for 100 hours. Then 20% x 100 = 20 hours would be idle, and therefore 80 hours would be worked.

    So, for every 80 hours actually worked then 20 hours would be idle. The idle time is therefore 20/80 or 25% of the hours actually worked.

    February 17, 2015 at 10:48 am #228860
    Ruksar
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    Thank u so much Sir. it makes sense now 🙂

    February 17, 2015 at 12:52 pm #228892
    John Moffat
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    You are welcome 🙂

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