Laying it all out
This is a revision style question regarding absorption and marginal costing, a rewording of a question posted a day or two ago. I know asking for help of this kkind is frowned upon or probably is frowned upon, probably more so here of all places due to the professionals who come here. HOWEVER I have been trying this question for 3 solid days. To no avail.
Here are the costs:
Food - £7000
Stationary - £6000
Salary - £50000
Heating - £5000
Telephone - £3000
Insurance - £2000
Property expenses - £5000
Depreciation - £3000
Transport - £2000
Total - 83000
The question as it stands is: You have a budgeted income statement and expenditure budget which both assume you are working at 90% capacity. Working above 100% capacity incurs several costs:
+£400 heating
+£500 telephone
+£700 insurance
+£500 property expenses
Salary*1.333
Depreciation and transport remain the same
Food and stationary increase linearly with capacity (I assume these are direct materials)
A secondary company is willing to take 10% of your clients. Assuming you are working at 120% capacity, calculate the additional work to said secondary company by using total absorption costing principles and marginal costing principles.
Here is what I calculated as 120% capacity:
Food - £9333..33 (7000/90%*100%)
Stationary - £8000 (6000/90%*100%)
Salary - £66500
Heating - £5400
Telephone - £3500
Insurance - £2700
Property expenses - £5500
Depreciation - £3000
Transport - £2000
Total - £105.933.33
Now, I think I have sorted them into categories of direct materials, direct labour, variable overheads and fixed overheads (not sure if correct):
Food + stationary = direct materials - 17,333.33
Labour - direct labour = 66,500
Heating + telephone + insurance + property expenses = variable overheads - 17,100
Depreciation + transport = fixed overheads - 5,000
I used those figures combined with total production over heads (everything - fixed variiable costs) to get the overhead absorption rates for prime cost direct materials and direct labour which worked out at:
Direct materials OAR - 582%
Direct labour OAR - 151%
Prime cost OAR - 121%
Now I'm lost, I dont know what to do to work out the costs of the additional 10% on the outsourced company by using absorption and marginal principles, all the costs remain the same other than the two linear variable costs in direct materials so I dont know whats going on.
I am really sorry for mucking up your forum with this stuff but I really want to do well in this exam and something like this will probably be in it.
Again, really sorry but please help.



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