Below are the actual overhead and actual activities for the three (3) production departments at Groceries 'R Us for the year ended August 2021. A Indirect Labour Indirect Materials Other Expenses Machine hours |Labour hours $93,750 $31,250 S62,500 6,250 31.250 $12.500 $18,750 $93.750 12,500 6,250 S18,750 S43,750 S78,125 18.750 15,625 Prior to the end of the period, the production manager provided the following budgeted information for each of the departments. The entity also has two service departments: Stores and Maintenance. The following immediately below are the budgeted data for the same period: в Maintenance Stores Indirect Labour Indirect Materials Other Expenses Labour hours |Machine hours A $93,750 $18.750 $75,000 37,500 6,250 S46,875 S15,625 S62,500 5,000 9.375 S78,125 S46,875 S31,250 12,500 15,625 $31,250 $43,750 $50,000 $25,000 $37,500 $12,500 Overhead is absorbed based on the intensity of the individual departments. It has been estimated that service department usage is as follows: A B C Maintenance Stores Maintenance Stores 5% 30% 45% 25% 15% 40% 30% 10% Required: a) Prepare a schedule to apportion the notional service cost to production and the total overheads for the production departments after apportionment. Hint: use simultaneous equations to derive the notional values. b) Calculate the overhead absorbed in each department. c) Calculate the under/over absorbed overheads for each department.
Process Costing
Process costing is a sort of operation costing which is employed to determine the value of a product at each process or stage of producing process, applicable where goods produced from a series of continuous operations or procedure.
Job Costing
Job costing is adhesive costs of each and every job involved in the production processes. It is an accounting measure. It is a method which determines the cost of specific jobs, which are performed according to the consumer’s specifications. Job costing is possible only in businesses where the production is done as per the customer’s requirement. For example, some customers order to manufacture furniture as per their needs.
ABC Costing
Cost Accounting is a form of managerial accounting that helps the company in assessing the total variable cost so as to compute the cost of production. Cost accounting is generally used by the management so as to ensure better decision-making. In comparison to financial accounting, cost accounting has to follow a set standard ad can be used flexibly by the management as per their needs. The types of Cost Accounting include – Lean Accounting, Standard Costing, Marginal Costing and Activity Based Costing.
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