Which of the following is a definition of the throughput accounting ratio?
The following information is available for a single product:
Units produced 500
Time taken 200 hours
Maximum time available 200 hours
Materials purchased 1,000 kg costing $3,000
Materials used 800 kg
Labour costs $2,000
Overheads $1,500
Sales $9,000
What is the throughput accounting ratio for this product?
Which ONE of the following would serve to increase the Throughput Accounting Ratio?
A manufacturing company decides which of three mutually exclusive products to make in its factory on the basis of maximising the company’s throughput accounting ratio.
Current data for the three products is shown in the following table:
Product X Product Y Product Z
Selling price per unit $60 $40 $20
Direct material cost per unit $40 $10 $16
Machine hours per unit 10 20 2.5
Total factory costs (excluding direct materials) are $150,000. The company cannot make enough of any of the products to satisfy external demand entirely as machine hours are restricted.
Which of the following actions would improve the company’s existing throughput accounting ratio?