BA2 Exam Question 81

Refer to the Exhibit.

A company operates a batch costing system.
Production overhead costs are absorbed into the cost of batches using a direct labour hour rate. Other overhead costs are absorbed at a rate of 20% of total production cost. The company adds a mark-up of 10% to total cost in order to derive its selling prices.
Budgeted production overheads for the period are $44,000 and the budgeted level of activity is 8,800 direct labour hours.
The following data are available for batch number 309:
The required selling price per unit (to two decimal places) is:

BA2 Exam Question 82

A company has three production departments X. Y and Z, and one service department The service department's overhead has been apportioned to the production departments in the ratio 32 5 As a result of this apportionment, S2,070 was given to Department Y.
What is the amount of service department overhead that would have been apportioned to Department Z? Give your answer to the nearest dollar.

BA2 Exam Question 83

Refer to the exhibit.

ZAP publishes a monthly magazine aimed at the teenage market. It has drawn up a budget for next year as follows:
The magazine is currently sold at $2.00 per copy.
The margin of safety is

BA2 Exam Question 84

Refer to the exhibit.

Data for October's budget for product Quest for the month of October are given below:
Each unit of Quest requires 6kg of raw materials. Strict quality control procedures are applied to the manufacturing process and normal rejection levels are 5% of finished units.
The raw materials purchases budget for the month of October is:
  • BA2 Exam Question 85

    Refer to the exhibit.

    The following data relates to Department A within a business unit.
    The overhead absorption rate per direct labour hour for Department A is:
    Give your answer to 2 decimal places.