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Throughput Accounting – not sure how they get the figures

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  • This topic has 12 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 5 years ago by John Moffat.
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  • October 9, 2017 at 11:05 am #410006
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    (3) In order to be able to meet increased demand, CBF Co bought
    another assembly machine, so doubling capacity. The quality control
    and packaging machines were also modified, so increasing their
    capacity by 70% and 40% respectively. The per unit factors of sales
    price, material cost and machine time remain unaltered.
    thrived and the maximum demand for each product
    The economy
    rose to 1,500 Alpha, 2,750 Beta and 900 Gamma. Operating
    expenses increased by 30% and the packaging machine became
    the bottleneck. Weekly profit maximising output has been calculate
    c
    as 1,500 Alpha, 2,460 Beta and 900 Gamma giving a weekly profit
    of $1852.40.

    What is the throughput accounting ratio at this profit
    Maximising level of output, to two decimal places?

    A 1.36
    B 0.356
    C 1.76
    D 0.46

    thanks in advance

    October 9, 2017 at 11:33 am #410013
    John Moffat
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    You have not given enough information. I would guess this is part of a Section B type question, in which case the information in the scenario is needed as well.

    October 9, 2017 at 12:45 pm #410021
    Anonymous
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    Oops here’s the rest thanks:

    After manufacture, each heater has to go through three processes Assembly, Quality control and Packaging.

    ________________________Alpha_______Beta________Gamma
    Sales_per unit_____________$2.00______$2.25__________$1.75
    Direct materials per unit_____$0.5________$0.81_________$0.35
    Direct labour per unit_______$0.3_________$0.6__________$0.5
    Machine time per unit:
    Assembly minutes___________2___________3____________2.5
    Quality Control minutes_______3___________4____________2
    Packaging minutes____________4___________5____________3
    Weekly sales demand______1000units_______1500units____850units

    Operating expenses, including labour and $4000

    Maximum machine hours available are 150 Assembly, 170 Quality Control, 250Packaging

    October 9, 2017 at 3:03 pm #410041
    John Moffat
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    The new operating expenses are 4,000 + 30% = 5,200.

    Since the profit is 1852.40, the throughput return must be 1852.40 + 5200 = 7052.40

    Therefore the TAR = 7052.40 / 5200 = 1.36

    (You could divide both by the total hours in the bottleneck (packing) to get the return per hour and the cost per factory hour, but since you would be dividing both by the same number of hours the answer will be the same.)

    December 29, 2019 at 8:24 pm #556502
    shawny
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    Good evening sir.
    Please how was the bottle neck established? I don’t know how 143.75 was gotten for Assembly hours, 178.33 for Quality control hours and 234.17 for the packaging hours.

    December 30, 2019 at 8:01 am #556513
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    The question tells you that packaging is the bottleneck – you do not need to establish it.

    March 27, 2020 at 5:05 pm #565999
    kudratkomila1
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    Good evening, Sir.
    Could you kindly explain please how we identified actual hours required: 143.75 for Assembly hours, 178.33 for Quality control hours and 234.17 for the packaging hours

    March 28, 2020 at 9:59 am #566038
    John Moffat
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    For assembly: (1,000 x 2) + (1,500 x 3) + (850 x 2.5) = 8,625 minutes which is 8,625/60 =
    143.75 hours.

    It is the same workings for the other two.

    April 27, 2020 at 11:38 am #569346
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    Whats the meaning of this line = to increase efficiently of the machine???

    April 27, 2020 at 1:54 pm #569355
    Anonymous
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    In mean to say That in throughtput Accounting to Eliminate Bottleneck we do the following steps
    First =we buy a new machine if are finance allows us to do.
    Second = we can incerase the efficiency of the machine (so this point i did not get)
    One point i did not Get either what does this means ‚‘‘to increase efficiency of the bottleneck‘‘.

    April 27, 2020 at 4:05 pm #569360
    John Moffat
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    Increasing the efficiency means getting it to work faster.

    April 28, 2020 at 7:36 am #569392
    Anonymous
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    God bless u always.
    Thank you

    April 28, 2020 at 9:23 am #569406
    John Moffat
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    You are welcome 🙂

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