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Overhead cos, issues. (From CIMA Management Accounting Pillar Managerial Level !

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Question

Overhead cos, issues. (From CIMA Management Accounting Pillar Managerial Level ! Paper, November 2006] X has two production departments. Assembly and Finishing, and two service departants, and Maintenance. Stores provides the following service to the production departments: 60% to Assembly and 40% to Finishing. Maintenance provides the following service to the production and service departments: 40% to Assembly, 45% to Finishing and 15% to Stores. The budgeted information for the year is as follows: At the end of the year after apportioning the service department overheads, the total fixed production overheads debated to the Assembly department's fixed production overhead control account were 180000. the actual output achieved was 120000 units for the Assembly

Explanation / Answer

Apportionment of overheads of service departments:

Predetermined overhead rate for Assembly Department = Budgeted Fixed Production overhead / Budgeted output in units = $ 100,000 / 100,000 = $ 1 per unit

As actual output was 120,000 units, applied fixed production overhead to Assembly department = $ 120,000

Actual fixed production overhead cost incurred for Assembly department = $ 180,000

As applied overhead is less than actual overhead incurred, under-absorption of fixed production overhead in Assembly department is $ 60,000