Question: Mabidi ( Pty ) Ltd ( Mabidi ) is a manufacturer of special durable tractor tyres ( units ) . Mabidi was established

Mabidi (Pty) Ltd ("Mabidi") is a manufacturer of special durable tractor tyres (units). Mabidi
was established in 2002 by three close friends from university, Motsamai, Wesley and Leeto.
Mabidi manufactures two types of tractor tyres: smaller front tires ("FT") and larger rear
tires ("RT"). Mabidi has a 31 August year-end.
Mabidi uses the absorption costing system to value its inventories (tyres). Mabidi operates
in a tough competitive environment and therefore uses activity-based costing (" ABC ") to
allocate g fixed manufacturing overheads.
The budgeted financial information for the correctly identified activities and the related fixed
manufacturing overheads costs are as follows:
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The following budgeted financial information for the two products was prepared for the
financial year ended 31 August 2024:
Additional information relating to the 2024 financial year:
The number of production runs are based on production batch sizes (units).
The FT product type total budgeted direct material and direct labour costs are
R3000000 and R2200000, respectively.
The RT product type total budgeted direct material and direct labour costs are
R5000000 and R3000000, respectively.
The actual manufacturing overheads incurred by Mabidi in the 2024 financial year
amounted to R9 million. The total actual machine hours for the same financial year
were 150000 machine hours.
One unit of RT takes three times the machine time that one unit of FT takes, due to
its size and thickness.
REQUIRED
Round to the nearest Rand throughout your calculations.
 Mabidi (Pty) Ltd ("Mabidi") is a manufacturer of special durable tractor

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