Question: A company has two divisions Assembly & Distribution . In the Assembly division small mechanical assemblies are manufactured in the two production departments to customer
A company has two divisions Assembly & Distribution . In the Assembly division small mechanical assemblies are manufactured in the two production departments to customer order. The following information is available for the two production departments for a period:
| Arrangement Dept ($) | Maintenance Dept (4) | |
| Budgeted production overhead | 256,200 | 168,100 |
| Budgeted machine hours | 4200 | 820 |
| Budgeted direct labour hours | 8100 | 15500 |
| Actual machine hours | 4384 | 734 |
| Actual direct labour hours | 8296 | 15109 |
Job No 102 (order for 800 assemblies)
| Materials issued ($) | 16740 | 264 |
| Machine hours ($) | 293 | 40 |
| Direct Labour hours ($) | 440 | 726 |
Labour hourly rates are $8 in the Arrangement Department and $10 in the Maintenance Department.
Actual production overhead in Arrangement in the period comprised:
Indirect materials : $47,440
Indirect labour: $203,740
General expenses (on credit): $172,838
Payments to general expense creditors in the period totalled $169,763. Trial and testing of Job No 102 (order for 800 assemblies) amounted to $ 8,690.
Required:
Calculate the total production cost of Job No 102:
(a) If production overheads are absorbed on the basis of machine hours in the Arrangement Department and the direct labour hours in the Maintenance Department
(b) If production overheads are absorbed on a plant-wide direct labour hour basis
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