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Over(Under) Absorption

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  • This topic has 5 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 15 years ago by tete.
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  • May 29, 2010 at 6:13 am #44234
    tete
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    Can anyone answer the situation (ii)?

    A company uses absorption costing with a predetermined hourly overhead absorption rate. The following situation have both occurred:

    (i) Actual overhead expenditure exceeded planned expenditure: and
    (ii) Actual hours worked were less than the planned hours

    Which of the following statement is correct?

    a) situation (i) would cause overhead to be over absorbed and situation (ii) would cause overhead to be under absorbed.
    b) situation (i) would cause overhead to be under absorbed and situation (ii) would cause overhead to be over absorbed.
    c) both situation would cause overhead to be over absorbed
    d) both situation would cause overhead to be under absorbed

    The correct answers is (D)

    i understand the situation (i) but i don’t know situation (ii).

    May 29, 2010 at 8:41 am #61590
    Anonymous
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    for me, u should identify indle time

    May 29, 2010 at 11:01 am #61591
    Anonymous
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    No Right Answer is Situation A..
    1–Leads to over absorption and that it was the Situation..
    2–If actual hours worked were below budgeted then by applying the predetermined rate which is based on a budget hour to this lower number will leads to UNDER absorption

    June 3, 2010 at 1:17 pm #61592
    John Moffat
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    The correct answer is D.

    To explain, let me invent some numbers:

    Planned/Budget: $20,000 and 10,000 hours

    Actual: $22,000 and 8,000 hours

    The absorption rate is always based on budget and so is 20,000/10000 = $2 per hour.

    We then charge $2 per hour for every hour actually worked.

    This will mean that we charge 8,000 x $2 = $16,000

    This is less than the actual total of $22,000 (so we have under-charged / under-absorbed)

    It is less for two reasons: firstly because the actual total was higher than budget total.
    However, even if the actual total was correct at $20,000 we would still have underabsorbed because we only charged for the actual hours worked (8000) when we had budgeted on working 10000.

    I hope that helps.

    June 4, 2010 at 10:38 am #61593
    eddie247
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    hi,john is absolutely spot on,the answer is d

    June 10, 2010 at 3:30 am #61594
    tete
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    Hi John, understand now. Thank you.:)

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