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- February 6, 2018 at 7:40 am #435435
Hi, I have been facing problem to solve the following question:
# Cabal makes and sells two products, Plus and Doubleplus. The direct costs of production are $12 for one unit of Plus and $24 per unit of Doubleplus.
Information relating to annual production and sales is as follows:
Plus
Annual production and sales 24,000 units
Direct labour hours per unit 1.0
Number of orders 10
Number of batches 12
Number of setups per batch 1
Special parts per unit 1Doubleplus
Annual production and sales 24,000 units
Direct labour hours per unit 1.5
Number of orders 140
Number of batches 240
Number of setups per batch 3
Special parts per unit 4Information relating to production overhead costs is as follows:
Activity —- Cost Driver —- Annual Cost
Setup costs —- Number of setups —- $73,200
Special part handling —- Number of special parts —- $60,000
Other materials handling —- Number of batches —- $63,000
Order handling —- Number of orders —- $19,800
Other overheads —– —- $ 216,000
Total = $432,000Other overhead costs do not have an identifiable cost driver, and in an ABC system, these overheads would be recovered on a direct labour hours basis.
Q: Calculate the production cost per unit of Plus and of Doubleplus if the company uses traditional absorption costing and the overheads are recovered on a direct labour hours basis.
February 6, 2018 at 8:56 pm #435556You must have an answer in the same book in which you found the question. Do not expect me to provide a full answer – ask me about whatever it is in the answer that you are not clear about. Then I will help you.
Everything you need to be able to answer this question is explained in full in my free lectures. The lectures are a complete free course for Paper F5 and cover everything needed to be able to pass the exam well.
February 7, 2018 at 3:21 am #435601Ah, okay. But could you please give me the link of that specific lecture where I would find the explanation about solving that question?
February 7, 2018 at 1:23 pm #435674You can find all of the lectures linked from the main Paper F5 page:
https://opentuition.com/acca/f5/The lectures are a complete free course for Paper F5 and cover everything needed to be able to pass the exam well.
You need to download the free lecture notes that go with the lectures (and they are linked also from the page above).Traditional absorption costing is explained in the same lectures as activity based costing.
February 7, 2018 at 4:22 pm #435719Got it. Thanks for the help, John.
February 8, 2018 at 10:07 am #435875You are welcome 🙂
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