Eton Ltd. operates a manufacturing process that produces product A. Information for this process last month is as follows:
(a) Opening work in progress - 2,500 kg valued at £2,000 for direct material and £1,500 for labour and overheads.
(b) Materials input - 25,000 kg at £2.10 per kg.
(c) Labour - £10,000
(d) Overheads - £5,000
(e) Output during the month - 20,000 kg.
(f) There were 7,500 units of closing work in progress which was complete as to materials and 30% complete as to conversion.
(g) Normal loss for the month was 3% of input and all losses have a scrap value of £1 per kg.
What was the average cost per kg of finished output during the month?
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The following details have been extracted from the receivables collection records of SBC:
The amount budgeted to be received in September from credit sales is, to the nearest £000:
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SL manufactures a single product, the cost and selling price of which are given below:
Fixed overheads per unit are based on a budgeted production volume of 25,000 units.
Budgeted sales are assumed to be 25,000 units.
If all costs increase by 5% but selling price remains the same, by how much must sales change from the budgeted volume to achieve the same budgeted profit?
A company currently allows a discount of 10% to customers who pay at the time of purchase. If 20% of customers pay immediately, the extra sales needed in July to increase the cash receipts in that month by £9,000 are:
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The following data relates to two activity levels of a department. Overhead absorption is on the basis of machine hours.
The variable overhead rate per hour is £4.50. The amount of fixed overhead, to the nearest £000, is:
Apex Plc has budgeted to sell 8,000 units of A in the year. Opening inventory of A is estimated at 1,000 units and the company plans to reduce inventory levels of all products by 15%.
What will be the production budget (in units) for the year?
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SP, a manufacturing company, uses a standard costing system. The standard variable production overhead cost is based on the following budgeted figures for the year:
During the month of September, 5,300 actual hours were worked and 5,600 standard hours of output were produced. Total variable production overhead costs in September were $8,600.
What was the total variable production overhead variance in September?
A company operates a full cost system of pricing. Production overheads are absorbed using a pre-determined absorption rate of £3.50 per machine hour. The direct production cost of product A is £15 per unit and it utilises 6 machine hours per unit. The mark-up for non-production costs is 10% of total production cost. The company applies a 25% mark-up on total cost for all products.
The required selling price for Product A, to two decimal places, is:
A company’s cash budgetary plans show that there will be surplus cash for three months of the forthcoming year.
Which THREE of the following would be appropriate management actions in this situation?
The master budget is:
TESTED 16 Jul 2025