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throughput accounting

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  • This topic has 12 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 9 years ago by John Moffat.
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  • May 23, 2015 at 11:34 pm #248247
    Ryan
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    Hey sir,
    Just confused with a calculation part of the following question

    Corrie Produces 3 products X Y & Z.the capacity of Corrie’s plant is restricted by process alpha.process alpha is expected to be operational for eight hours per day and can produce 1200 units of X per hour,1500 units of Y per hour and 600 units of Z per hour.
    Selling prices and material costs for each product are as follows
    Product has selling price 150 material cost 70 and throuhput 80
    Y selling price 120 mat costs 40 and throughput 80
    Z selling price 300 mat costs 100 throughput 200.
    Conversion costs 720,000
    Calacukate throughput ratio.
    In the ans they have done $80x(60÷.05)=96000 as throughput per house for product X and similarly for Y and Z.my question is do we need to do 60÷.05 (X) 60÷.04 (Y) and 60÷ .10 (z) for x,y,z respectively as their amounts of 1200 1500 and 600 are also given in the question .do we just take the throughput per unit and multiply it into the units per hour.

    May 24, 2015 at 10:30 am #248338
    John Moffat
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    To get the throughput per hour, you can either divide the throughput per unit by the hours per unit, or alternatively you can multiply the throughput per unit by the number of units per hour.

    Both will give exactly the same answer 🙂

    May 24, 2015 at 10:41 am #248346
    Ryan
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    OK sir.thanks alot

    May 24, 2015 at 10:54 am #248355
    saifudeen
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    hi sir ,
    in this question how u get 0.05 ?? 0.04 Nd 0.10 and what is that actually ?

    May 24, 2015 at 11:19 am #248371
    John Moffat
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    If they produce 1200 of X per hour, then the time for 1 unit is 1/1200 x 60 = 0.05 minutes.

    May 24, 2015 at 3:38 pm #248442
    saifudeen
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    sir in your explanation u said to get throughput u can divide throughput per unit by hours per unit ,so here the throughput for x is $60 . Whhat is hour per unit ? here if we take its like 1/1200 = 0.00083 hr so your saying to divide $60 by 0.00083 ? then we wont get the same answer
    please help sir iam confused.

    May 24, 2015 at 6:11 pm #248523
    John Moffat
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    You can do it in hours or you can do it in minutes.

    Since here the time for each unit is very small, it is easier to do it in minutes.

    Whichever you do – everything in hours or everything in minutes, you will end up with exactly the same answer.

    May 26, 2015 at 12:39 pm #249151
    alawi sayed
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    Hi Sir,

    in order to get factory cost per factory hour we must have the total time of the bottleneck resource how we can the total time here
    here we have only the time of 8 hours per day
    can we say 365 days x 8 =2920 per year

    here there no period specified

    May 26, 2015 at 3:32 pm #249213
    John Moffat
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    The original question said that the conversion costs were per day (Ryan didn’t type that because he was not asking about that).

    Since there are 8 hours in a day, the cost per factory hour is 720,000/8 = 90,000

    May 26, 2015 at 10:51 pm #249362
    alawi sayed
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    Thanks Mr John for clarifications

    May 27, 2015 at 8:06 am #249446
    John Moffat
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    You are welcome 🙂

    January 29, 2016 at 10:32 am #298450
    umair ikmal
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    sir , 1 unit = 1 divided 1200 unit and times with 60 . how to get 60 ?

    January 29, 2016 at 11:00 am #298452
    John Moffat
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    There are 60 minutes in one hour 🙂

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