BA2 Exam Dumps - Fundamentals of management accounting
A company absorbs production overhead using a direct labour hour rate. Data for the latest period are as follows:
What is the overhead absorption rate per direct labour hour? Give your answer to one decimal place.
A company makes and sells a range of products. The standard details per unit for one of these products, product X, are as follows.
To meet sales demand, the company must obtain 2,000 units of product X next month. There is sufficient labour capacity to produce 1,500 of these units in-house during normal time. However, any production above this level would require overtime working which would be paid at a premium of 50%.
The company can buy as many units of product X as it wishes next month from an external supplier at a price of $120 per unit.
What is the total financial benefit to the company of purchasing the appropriate number of units from the external supplier rather than producing them in-house?
Refer to the exhibit.
ZAP publishes a monthly magazine aimed at the teenage market. It has drawn up a budget for next year as follows:
The magazine is currently sold at $2.00 per copy.
The margin of safety is
It is company policy that the closing inventory of finished goods must be equal to 20% of the following month's budgeted sales. The budget sales for November and December are 6,000 and 7,000 units respectively.
The budgeted production for November will be
A company uses an integrated accounting system and absorbs production overhead using a predetermined rate of $6 per machine hour.
Last period a total of 25,500 machine hours were worked and the actual production overhead incurred was $158,000.
The accounting entries for the absorption of production overhead for the period would be:
Refer to the exhibit.
The following information relates to Job 123:
The selling price to the customer for Job 123 is:
Refer to the exhibit.
SP, a manufacturing company, uses a standard costing system. The standard variable production overhead cost is based on the following budgeted figures for the year:
During the month of September, 5,300 actual hours were worked and 5,600 standard hours of output were produced. Total variable production overhead costs in September were $8,600.
What was the variable production overhead expenditure variance in September?