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Fflotamlambo11y ago
The cost card per unit is as follows $ Materials 9 Labour(1hour) 6 Other production costs 8 The selling price is $30per unit and each unit requires 6minutes of machine time.Machine time is the bottelneck resource. What is the return/factory hour in throughput accounting environment
Mmaas11y ago#1
Is the answer $210
Fflotamlambo11y ago#2
how do i calculate it
John MoffatJohn MoffatTutor11y ago#3
The throughput is 30 - 9 = 21 per unit. The hours per unit are 6/60 = 0.1 hours So the return per factory hour (or throughput per hour) is 21 / 0.1 = $210 (I suggest that you watch the free lecture on throughput accounting!)
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