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  • This topic has 9 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 10 years ago by John Moffat.
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  • May 10, 2014 at 8:34 am #168150
    Mahrukh
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    A company budgeted to produce 3000 units of a product in a period at a budgeted cost p.u. as follows
    Direct costs 12
    Variable Ohds 5
    Fixed Ohds 9
    Total 26
    In the period covered by the budget:
    (a) Actual sales were 3500 units &; finished inventory decreased by 300 units.
    (b) Actual fixed overhead expenditure was 5% more than budgeted, all other costs were as budgeted.

    A- Overheads were over absorbed by 450
    B- Under absorbed by 450
    C- Over absorbed by 1450
    D- Under absorbed by 1450

    I have got that budgeted overheads would be 27000, Actual would be 28350. But how to find out absorbed overheads?? I’m confused about point (a)

    May 10, 2014 at 11:26 am #168181
    John Moffat
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    The fixed overheads absorbed are actual production x fix o/h absorption rate

    The actual production is 3,200 units; the fix o/h’s are 9 per unit.
    So total absorbed is 3200 x 9 = 28800

    (This is more than actual, so there is over-absorption of the difference)

    May 10, 2014 at 4:29 pm #168250
    Mahrukh
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    How you calculated the actual production??

    May 10, 2014 at 5:19 pm #168252
    John Moffat
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    The sales were 3,500 units, but 300 of them came from reducing the inventory, so only 3,200 units were produced.

    May 11, 2014 at 11:48 am #168312
    Mahrukh
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    Thankyou 🙂

    May 11, 2014 at 12:36 pm #168332
    John Moffat
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    You are welcome 🙂

    May 18, 2014 at 2:06 am #169261
    josy87
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    hi Sir
    please about this case, I’m confused. the case says ” finished inventory decreased by 300 units”. I thought finished inventory were decreased by 300 because 3500u were sold. I though I will mean 3800 (3500 + 300) were produced and after selling 3500, the closing stock is 300 . Help It’s very confusing as English is not my first language.
    thanks

    May 18, 2014 at 12:42 pm #169285
    John Moffat
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    If finished inventory decreased by 300, it means that the inventory at the end of the year was 300 less than it was at the start of the year.

    So what happened to those 300 units? They must have been sold. So since in total there were 3500 sold, then if 300 of them came out of the inventory then the remainder (3500-300= 3200) must have been produced extra.

    May 18, 2014 at 1:54 pm #169300
    josy87
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    ok, it means those 300 u were from last year and are opening inventory this year?
    ok thanks

    May 18, 2014 at 2:30 pm #169304
    John Moffat
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    Yes. We do not know what the opening inventory was, all that matters is that the closing inventory decreased by 300 during the year.

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