WQT Co manufactures a single product and an extract from their flexed budget for production costs is as follows.
Activity level
80% 90%
$ $
Direct material 2,400 2,700
Labour 2,120 2,160
Production overhead 4,060 4,080
8,580 8,940
What would the total production cost allowance be in a budget flexed at the 83% level of activity? (to the nearest $)
Which of these statements is untrue?
What is the shadow price of one hour of machine time in the Mixing Department?
In what circumstances does slack arise?
The following draft annual budget has been prepared for the machining room of a production centre. The machining room makes four components which are then transferred to an assembly and fitting department.
The machining room has a maximum capacity of 24,000 hours per year, but any quantity of any of the components can be purchased from an external supplier if required. It is essential that the budgeted quantities of all four components be delivered to the assembly and fitting department. This means that some of the budgeted requirement for components will have to be purchased externally.
In order to optimise the financial return, which component should be purchased externally?
A company makes two products, X and Y, with the same machines and the same direct labour workforce. The following information is available for the next budget period.
During the period there will be a maximum of 20,000 machine hours and 48,000 direct labour hours available, and these resources could be limiting factors on output and sales. If linear programming is used to determine the optimum production quantities of Product X and Product Y, which one of the following would be a constraint in the linear programming model?
A company manufactures three products using different amounts of the same grade of labour, which is in short supply. The following budgeted data relates to the products:
What order should the products be manufactured in to ensure that profit is maximised?
The following control account has been prepared by a trainee accountant:
RECEIVABLES LEDGER CONTROL ACCOUNT
ABC Co makes three products, budget information is provided below.
Material A is in short supply and ABC Co only have 10,000 kgs available. Material A costs $10 per kg.
What is the optimum production plan for ABC Co?
The following receivables ledger control account prepared by a trainee accountant contains a number of errors:
RECEIVABLES LEDGER CONTROL ACCOUNT
$ $
20X4 20X4
1 Jan Balance 614,000 31 Dec Credit sales 301,000
31 Jan Cash from credit customers 311,000 Discounts allowed 3,400
Contras against amounts Irrecoverable debts
due to suppliers in written off 32,000
payables ledger 8,650 Interest charged on overdue
accounts 1,600
Balance 595,650 933,650
933,650
What should the closing balance on the control account be after the errors in it have been corrected?