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MA – L2 – Q39 – Cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis

Compute break-even sales for Fuseni Limited's two products, maintaining budgeted sales ratio, with detailed overhead allocation.

Fuseni Limited has two divisions each of which makes a different product. The budgeted data for the next year is as under:

Product A Product B
Sales GH¢ 200,000,000 GH¢ 150,000,000
Direct material GH¢ 45,000,000 GH¢ 30,000,000
Direct labour GH¢ 60,000,000 GH¢ 45,000,000
Factory overheads GH¢ 35,000,000 GH¢ 15,000,000
Price per unit GH¢ 20 GH¢ 25

Details of factory overheads are as follows:
(i) Product A is stored in a rented warehouse whose rent is GH¢0.25 million per month. Product B is required to be stored under special conditions. It is stored in a third party warehouse and the company has to pay rent on the basis of space utilised. The rent has been budgeted at GH¢0.12 million per month.
(ii) Indirect labour has been budgeted at 20% of direct labour. 70% of the indirect labour is fixed.
(iii) Depreciation for assets pertaining to product A and B is GH¢6.0 million and GH¢2.0 million respectively.
(iv) 80% of the cost of electricity and fuel varies in accordance with the production in units and the total cost has been budgeted at GH¢4.0 million.
(v) All other overheads are fixed.

Required:
Compute the break-even sales assuming that the ratio of quantities sold would remain the same, as has been budgeted above.

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MA – L2 – Q12a – Activity-based costing

Calculate product costs for two products using traditional absorption costing based on machine hours.

MCC has total budgeted production overheads for next year of GH₵816,000 and has traditionally absorbed overheads on a machine hour basis. It makes two products, Product A and Product B.

Product A Product B
Direct material cost per unit GH₵20 GH₵60
Direct labour cost per unit GH₵50 GH₵40
Machine time per unit 3 hours 4 hours
Annual production 6,000 units 4,000 units

Required:
(a) Calculate the product cost for each of the two products on the assumption the firm continues to absorb overhead costs on a machine hour basis.

The company is considering changing to an activity based costing (ABC) system and has identified the following information:

Product A Product B
Number of setups 18 32
Number of purchase orders 48 112
Overhead cost analysis GH₵
Machine-related overhead costs 204,000
Setup related overhead costs 280,000
Purchasing-related overhead costs 332,000
Total production overheads 816,000

Required:
(b) Calculate the unit cost for each of the two products on the assumption that the firm changes to an ABC system, using whatever assumptions you consider appropriate.

(c) Suggest how ABC analysis could be useful for measuring performance and improving profitability.

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