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Cost Accounting: T I C A P

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THE INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS OF PAKISTAN

Intermediate Examinations Spring 2004

March 11, 2004

COST ACCOUNTING (MARKS 100)


Module D (3 hours)

Q.1 Explain the following terms:

Expense (02)
Product cost (02)
Semi-variable cost (02)
Period cost (02)

Q.2 Critically analyse the following statement:

“Labour turnover should be low whereas stock turnover should be high.” (08)

Q. 3 XYZ Company produces 200 articles of X per annum. Each article of X requires
3.8 units of material Y. Some other data is given below:

Cost per unit of Y Rs. 12,500


Warehouse monthly rent Rs. 15,000
Warehouse fumigation during the year Rs. 23,000
Watchman salary per month Rs. 4,500
Per order inspection charges Rs. 10,252
Service departments factory overhead charged to
Store department Rs. 10,000
Ordering department Rs. 7,050
Stock holding per annum Rs. 125 per unit
Working capital cost 16%
Salaries of ordering department Rs. 10,050
Broker commission on supply of Y 0.50%
Per order lump sum out of pocket expenses of
broker of material Y Rs. 22,048

You are required to calculate:

(a) Economic Order Quantity. (08)


(b) Number of orders per annum on the basis of Economic Order Quantity. (02)
(c) Verify your answer in (b) by calculating total ordering plus carrying
costs per annum:
(i) Assuming higher number of orders than in (b) (03)
(ii) Assuming lower number of orders than in (b) (03)
(2)

Q.4 AAB Company is planning its capacity for the year 2004 at 90% of the rated capacity.
For the purpose of estimating ‘other factory overhead expenses’ company uses five years
history and ‘simple regression analysis’ method. Data in hand is as under:

Rated capacity 20,000


Direct labour hours at 100% capacity 25,000

Five year history of ‘Other factory overhead expenses’ is as under:

Year Other factory overhead Direct labour


expenses (Rs.) hours

1999 90,775 23,750


2000 83,125 18,750
2001 84,800 20,000
2002 99,084 21,000
2003 84,860 19,750

In the year 2002 other factory overhead expenses include a penalty of Rs. 12,734 on non
compliance of certain labour laws.

You are required to calculate fixed and variable portions of estimated other factory
overhead expenses at planned capacity. (10)

Q. 5 AAD Company’s Budgeting Department has compiled following data for decision-making:

Product Demand Average Material Labour Opening


in units sale price per unit per unit stock
Rs. Rs. Rs. Units

A 1,500 318 172 76 50


B 2,200 421 172 173 50
C 3,700 280 172 32 -

Minimum order quantity of each product is 100 units. The company has Rs. 800,000
working capital in hand and a running finance line of Rs. 500,000 at 24% per annum cost.

Production lead time and sales recovery period is estimated at one year.

Administrative and marketing expenditure per annum are Rs. 152,700 and Rs. 72,842
respectively.

Opening stock carry same unit cost as given for current year.

You are required to:

(a) Prepare product sales mix that can generate maximum net profit. (08)
(b) Projected Profit and Loss Statement according to your suggested product mix. (04)
(3)

Q.6 Following is the data of Department B of EFG Company for December, 2003:

Work in process (opening) 8,500 units


(Completed as to material 20% and conversion
cost 25%) Rs. 43,860
Work in process (ending) 11,540 units
(Completed as to material 50% and conversion
cost 25%)
Current period transactions are:
Cost transferred from Department A Rs. 45,600
Units transferred from Department A 12,000 units
Units mishandled and lost before start of
any process 460 units
Material consumed Rs. 27,654
Conversion cost incurred Rs. 47,689
Units transferred out 7,500

Normal spoilage is 6% of units transferred out and inspection is done at the end of
process. Company uses FIFO method for inventory valuation.

You are required to prepare production report of Department B showing Quantity


Schedule, Cost Charged to Department and Heads of Account where costs have been
accounted for. (20)

Q.7 ABC Limited intend to commence production from July 1. They have provided
following information for the first four months of operation:

PARTICULARS 1st 2nd 3rd 4th

Sales in units 9,500 9,300 9,900 10,000

Selling price per unit 60 58 59 60

Cost per unit


Material 20 18 19 20
Labour 10 10 10 10
Overhead 5 5 5 5
Depreciation 5 5 5 5
Administrative 3 3 3 3
Marketing 2 2 2 2

Capital expenditure - - - 50,000


(4)

Additional Information

1) Material will be purchased on cash basis. The company intends to keep


stock for one month.

2) Wages to be paid at the end of the month.

3) Other costs will be accrued for one month.

4) Production for 5th month is expected to be 6,500 units.

5) Sales collections are as follows:


50% collection in first month
30% collection in second month
20% collection in third month

6) Loan from sponsors Rs 300,000 to be repaid in 5 equal monthly


installments beginning from second month of operation.

7) Cash in hand to be maintained at Rs 50,000. Deficit, if any, will be


financed from bank. Any surplus funds to be utilized towards payment
of bank liability. Markup, if any, will be paid @ 8% p.a. every six
months.

8) Cash in hand as on July 1, Rs 50,000.

Required:-

(a) Budgeted profit & loss for the four months. (06)
(b) Budgeted Cash flow statement for the four months. (10)

Q.8 From the following information, allocate overheads of service departments to individual
producing departments by adopting algebraic method:

Departmental overheads
before distribution of Service Provided
Departments Service Departments Dept Y Dept Z

Producing Dept – A Rs 6,000 40 % 20 %


Producing Dept – B Rs 8,000 40 % 50 %
Service – Y Rs 3,630 - 30 %
Service – Z Rs 2,000 20 % -
________ ______ ______
Total Departmental Overheads Rs 19,630 100 % 100 %
======= ===== ===== (10 )

(THE END)

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