Which of the following would be considered a service industry?(i) An airline company(ii) A railway company(iii) A firm of accountants
Which of the following are likely to use service costing?(i) A college (ii) A hotel (iii) A plumber
Which of the following would be considered a service industry?
(i) An airline company
(ii) A railway company
(iii) A firm of accountants
The following information relates to a management consultancy organisation:
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Salary cost per hour for senior consultants 40
Salary cost per hour for junior consultants 25
Overhead absorption rate per hour applied to all hours 20
The organisation adds 40% to total cost to arrive at the final fee to be charged to a client. Assignment number 789 took 54 hours of a senior consultant's time and 110 hours of junior consultants' time. What is the final fee to be charged for Assignment 789?
A company operates a job costing system. Job number 1012 requires $45 of direct materials and $30 of direct labour. Direct labour is paid at the rate of $7.50 per hour. Production overheads are absorbed at a rate of $12.50 per direct labour hour and non-production overheads are absorbed at a rate of 60% of prime cost.What is the total cost of job number 1012?
Last year, Bryan Air carried excess baggage of 250,000 kg over a distance of 7,500 km at a cost of $3,750,000 for the extra fuel.What is the cost per kg-km?
The following question is taken from the December 2012 exam paper.
A truck delivered sand to two customers in a week. The following details are available.
Customer Weight of goods delivered (kilograms) 500 (kilograms)
X 500 200
Y 180 1,200
680 1,400
The truck cost $3,060 to operate in the week. Each customer delivery was carried out separately, and the truck made no other deliveries in the week.What is the cost per kilogram/kilometre of sand delivered in the week (to the nearest $0.001)?
Last month a manufacturing company's profit was $2,000, calculated using absorption costing principles. If marginal costing principles had been used, a loss of $3,000 would have occurred. The company's fixed production cost is $2 per unit. Sales last month were 10,000 units.
What was last month's production (in units}?
________units
A company has recently adopted throughput accounting as a performance measuring tool. Its results for the last month are shown below.
Units produced 1,150
Units sold 800
Materials purchased 900 kg costing $13,000
Opening material inventory used 450 kg costing $7,250
Labour costs $6,900 Overheads $4,650
Sales price $35
There was no opening inventory of finished goods or closing inventory of materials.
What is the throughput accounting ratio for this product?
The following details relate to three services offered by DSF.
All three services use the same direct labour, but in different quantities.
In a period when the labour used on these services is in short supply, the most and least profitable use of the labour is: