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Assignment Question: The following budgeted information relates to ABC Ltd for the forthcoming period:
Product X
Product Y
Product Z
Sales and production (units)
50,000 units
40,000 units
30,000 units
Selling price (per unit)
$45
$95
$73
Prime cost (per unit)
$32
$84
$65
Hours
Machine department (machine hours per unit)
2
5
4
Assembly department (direct labour hours per unit)
7
3
Overheads allocated and apportioned to production departments (including service cost centre costs) were to be recovered in product costs as follows:
1. Machine department at $3.50 per machine hour,
2. Assembly department at $1.20 per direct labour hour.
The management ascertains that the above overheads could be reanalysed into 'cost pools' as follows:
Cost pool
Cost driver
Quantity for the period
Machining services
$357,000
Machine hours
420,000
Assembly services
$318,000
Direct labour hours
530,000
Set-up costs
$30,000
Set-ups
530
Order processing
$156,000
Customer orders
32,000
Purchasing
$84,000
Supplier orders
11,200
Total
$945,000
The management has also provided you with the following estimates for the period:
Number of set-ups
120
200
210
8,000
16,000
Suppliers' orders
3,000
4,000
4,200
Requirements: You are to provide a report of not more than 1,500 words (on written part only excluding numerical information) that includes the income statements using both conventional absorption costing and activity-based costing and comment on why certain costing method is considered to present a fairer valuation of the product cost per unit.
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This report practically demonstrates the manner in which the Activity Based Costing method is better than the traditional Absorption Costing method. It highlights the advantages of using ABC method in terms of its detailed identification and allocation of various cost drivers to their respective cost pools thereby making it a more realistic, authentic and practical method. This report is presented in MS Word Format.
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