Lewington Ltd makes a variety of kitchen fittings and equipment. It uses a three-stage process involving cutting, assembly and finishing. The following figures are extracted from its budget for the current year:

The company uses an absorption costing system for calculating its costs. A batch of 300 ‘DX’ workstations has just been produced using £3,300 of materials, £4,500 of direct labour and the following quantities of time:

Tasks:Calculate the unit production cost and the total production cost of the batch of ‘DX’ workstations using the following three alternative bases:1.  Departmental overhead absorption rates are calculated on a machine hour basis.2.  Departmental overhead absorption rates are calculated on a direct labour hour basis.3.  The Cutting overhead absorption rate is calculated on a machine hour basis but theAssembly and Finishing rates are calculated on a direct labour hour basis.Comment on your findings.