Following Methods: Direct
Following Methods: Direct
4.66
by the following
to the jobMachine
methods
chargeable hour rate () DiDelhi:
(B. Com., rect
charges (i)
Calculate the overhead Labour hou rate, and
The percentage
12. Cost rate, (ü) relates to
followinginformation 2,8801
3,200, (üi) the activities of a production department for a certan periot
?4,000, (iü) Rs,
[Ans.
a factory:
{ 72,000
Materials used { 60,000
Direct wages
Hours of machine
Labour hours worked
operation 20,000000
24,
department { 48,000
to the the relevant data
Overheads chargeable
department during the period, were :
out in the { 4,000
order carried
On oneMaterials used
Labour hours
1,650
{ 3,300
Direct wages 1,200
Machine hours this order by using the following three
Prepare a
comparative statement of
cost of
methods
Rate Method; (ii) Machine Hour Rat
recovery of overheads : Method: (1) Direct Labour Cost
Hour Rate
() Direct Labour (B. Com., Delhi, Caliat
Method.
10,180]
10,600: () 9,940; (i~1) 2
[Ans. Works Cost (1)
of Supreme Industries for the year 2007.
the budget
13. The following is ? 56,000
Factory overheads 84,000
Direct material cost 1,12,000
Direct labour cost
Direct labour hours 28,000 on account of repairs,
etc.)
2,000 hrs. as idle hours
Machine hours 58,000 (includes following methods :
prepare the overhead absorption rates using the
() From the above figures, method,
(a) Direct material cost percentage
method,
(b) Direct labour cost percentage
(c) Direct labour hour, and
(d) Machine hour. application of each of tit
comparative statement of works cost showing the result of
(ii) Prepare a data :
above rates to job order No. 707 from the following 7 40
Direct material cost
7 80
Direct labour cost
40 (B. Com. Delhi)
Direct labour hours
45
Machine hours
(Ans. (1) (a) 66.67%, (b) 50%, (c) ? 2; (d) Re. 1 : operations
(i) (a) ? 166, (b) 160. (c) ? 200, (d) ? 165] machine op
and
14. Atlas Engineering Lrd. acepts averiety of jobs which require both manual
The Profit and Loss Account for the period 2011-2012 is as follows : lakhs ofrupees
(In
75
Sales
Cost
Direct materials 10
Dverheads 4.67
Directlabour
5
PrimeCost
ProductionOverhead 15
Production Cost 30
45
Administrative, Selling and Distribution Overheads
15 60
Profit
15
Other data:
the period
Labour hours for period 25,000
Machine hours for the 15,000
of jobs for the period
No. has been received recently from a customer and the production
Anenquiry 300
department has prepared
of
following estimate the prime cost required for the job :
the
Directmaterial 2,500
Directlabour 2,000
Prime Cost 4,500
required = 80; Machine hours for the period =50
Labour hours
required to
(a) are
You Calculate by different methods, six overhead absorption rates for absorption of overhead and
each.
comment on the suitability of
(b) Calculate the production overhead cost of the order based on each of the above rates.
(ICWA Inter)
[Ans.
9% of material %of labour %of prime cost MHR DLHR
Rate per unit
300% 600% 200% 200 ? 120
Rate 10,000
Overhead () 7,500 12,000 9,000 10,000 9.600 10,000]
Camnute the machine hour rate in respect or machine No. 1 from the following information:
Cost of the machine ?11,000. Scrap value ? 1,000
Effective working life of the machine 10,000 hours
Repairs for the effective life period 71,500
Standing charges for the month (for 40 machines of equal size) ? 1,600
Number of hours in a month 120
Power consumption for the machine is 6 units per hour at 10 paise per unit. (B. Com., Madras)
[Ans. 2.08]
16. Calculate machine hour rate :
Cost of machine Rs, 18,700
Estimated scrap value after the expiry of its useful life of 9 years 700
Annual running time of the machine 4,000 hours
Power consumed by machine 5 units per hour
Rate of power 8 paise per unit
Annual factory expenses ?9,120
Charge one-sixth of the annual factory expenses to the machine in question. (B. Com., Delhi)
17.
[Ans. 1.28]
Calculate the
1. Bought of
machine hour rate from the following details :
2.
Instal ationmachinery 45,000
charges 5,000
4.68
years
3. Life of machine 5
per Vear 2,500
4. Working hours
Repairs charges 75% of depreciation per hour @15 paise per
5. consumed: 10 units unit
6. Electic power
hours
Lubricating oil 4 per day of 8
7.
mable stores @R 10 per day of hours
8. Cons per day of 8 hours
@ 8
9. Wages of machine operator
Ans. 2.55)
18. Calculate the machine
Cost of machine
hour rate for machine A from the following date :
716,000
([Link].
Estimated scrap value 7 1,000
Effective working life 10,000 hours
Running time per four-weekly period 160 hours
Average cost of repairs and maintenance charges per four
weekly period 7 120
Stzanding charges allocated to machine Aper four-weekly period 40
Power used by machine 4 units per hour
paise an hour at a cost j
[Ans. 3]
19. Compute a machine hour rate so as to cover the overhead
Per hour
expenses given below : ([Link].
Per annum
Electric pOwer 75 p.
Steam
20 p.
Water 5 p.
Repairs 680
Rent
Other information available is : 350
?Original cost of machine
Present Book Value 15,000
Replacement Value 3,000
Rate of depreciation 10.000
Running hours of the machine 10% per annum
2,400 per annum
(Ans. ? 2.05) (B. Com., Atr
[Rint. Depreciation has been
20. A machine calculated on the
costing 20,000 is expected to run fororiginal cost of machine.]
estimated to be worth? 2,000. 10 years at the end of which its scrap val
be 1,800 and the
machine Installation charges ?
is expected to run are 200. Repairs for 10
yearslife is estinate!"
would be 15 units per hour for 2,190 hours in a year. Its power consumpof
department and has two pointsat5
of his time to this
out [Link] lighting. The foreman has1/4th
The machine
occupies to devote area
of the about1.
machine.
p.m. The foreman is paid a The rent for the lighting
p.a. and expenses on oil, salary of ? 960 departmentis 300 p.m. and charges for is
p.m. Find out the insurance
etc., are 9 per
month. hourly rate, assuming
[Ans. Machine Hour Rate ? Hons. Delhi Bang
4.059] (B. Com.,
4.69
Overheads
area of
it will work
for
([Link].,bout
The rent for the department is 400 p. m. and 25% of the the
conducting the operation of the machine.
One foreman and an operator are employed on a salary of 800 and depar
400 p.m.
tment
on one more machine of a similar type.
The other expenses for the month in the department are as follows : respectivey t
Light charges for the department 80, having 16 light points in all. out of
used at this machine. Total power consumed for two machines of equal H.P. iswhich
[Link]
4
for the machine is 50 and repairs 40.
You are required to compute the machine hour rate for the month when it
is
hours a week.
[Ans. ? 6.56]
expected to
(B. Com., work
Bang:
25. In afactory department, there are three machines to which the
Machine A
following expenses have been aloce:
639
B 607
951
In addition, there is an overhead crane to bring materials to the
allocated to this machine are 570. ; machine as necessary. The ere
During the period of expenditure, the machines were used as
follows :
Machine A Machine B Machine C
Hrs. Hrs.
With use of crane Hrs.
160
Without use of cane 130 480
428
Total 577
588
707 480
Calculate machine hour rate for each machine
used and those in which it is
not. distinquishing between the hours in wnici
[Ans. Without crane ? 1.09. Re. 0.86,
[Hint. This is similar to 1.98 With crane 1.83,
Problem 4.16 1.60, * [Link] J
26. A machine was solved)
was ? 75 lakhs. purchased for 5
The following lakhs. The total cost of al inclusive of the new n
Expected life of the machine 10further particulars are availablemachinery
Scrap value at the end of years
ten years
Repairs and maintenance for the ?5,000
Expected number of working hoursmachine during the
Insurance premium annually for all ofthethe machine peryear? 2,000.
year 4,000 hours.
machines 4,500
4.71
Overheads
5 (Cost Sheet)
Chapter Outline
Sheet, Production Statement, Treatment of Stocks, Items not
Introduction, Cost Exhaustive Cost Sheet, Treatment of Administration
Cost Sheet, Problems and
includedin Price Quotations and Estimated Cost Sheets,
and1 Scrap,
Overhead Examination Questions.
Solutions,
Introduction
costing or unit costing is a method of cost ascertainment which is used in
Output costing,singlehave the following features
:
those industries which product with variations
Production consists of a single product or a few varieties of the same
()
etc., and
in size, shape, quality, continuous basis. Output Costing is used in
is uniform and on
(i) Production commonly used are " Steel mills
industries in which this method is
Examples of " Brick works
steel, sugar, paper, brick works, quarries, breweries, dairies, " Paper mills
cement, a tonne of cement or steel or
ptc. Cost units in these industries are "Breweries
gallon of milk, etc.
Sugar, 1,000 bricks, a barrel of beer, a "Cement mills, etc.
Costing Procedure
Cost Sheet' is prepared periodically.
In order to ascertain cost of products, a statement known as
cost per unit is the average cost. It is
As the production is uniform and cost units are identical, the cost sheet is designed to
ascertained by dividing the total cost by the number of units produced. The
show the total cost as well as cost per unit of output for the given penod.
COST SHEET
components of
Thus cost sheet shows in detail the vanous cost
and total cost. It is prepared at regularof
factory cost of production goods
quarterty yearily etc. Comparative figures of the Drevious period also
so that assessment can be made about the progress of the business.
Production Statement
used
may
intervals, prSOhoducedwn
he e.g.,
inWeek Ihe
The term Production Statement is
statement is an expanded form of a cost interchangeably
sheet In with
addition to costcost sheet
o
Less: 1,10,000
Closing stock of raw materials 17,000
Cost ofmaterials consumed 93,000
(b) Stock of Work-in-Progress. This is the stock of semi-finished goods, i.e., the goodswhit
in manufacturing process. The cost of work-in-progress consists of cost of materials consumed
Sheet) sheet,
Costing(Cost the
preparation of cost stock
in Opening
Output
factory overhead. [Link] of factory cost. figure. In the
Unitor of the at the subtracted from this
proportionate partwork-in-progress are adjusted
stock is
work-in-progress.
stocks of and closing the stock of
cost treatment of
added to works
and a closing
wages and is assumed to show the
work-in-progress
opening have
h been 93,000
example. figures 22,000
of
following Direct materialsconsumed 5,000
1,20,000
Direct wages
Direct expenses Prime Cost 24,000
1,44,000
Factoryoverhead 14,000
Add: work-in-progress 1.58.000
8,000
stock of
Add : Opening 1,50,000
work-in-progresS Cost
stock of Works Cost or Factory The
Less:
Closing calculation of cost of production.
resulting
the
is adjusted afterfrom the cost of production. The
Finished Goods. This stock figures :
Sttock of and closing stock is subtracted continuing the same assumed
added to below,
(c) This is shown
stock is
opening be the Cost of Goods Sold. 1,50.000
figure will Factory cost 10,000
1,60,000
Add: Administration overhead Cost of Production 30,000
Particulars
Total cost
Opening stock of raw maternals XXX
Cost per n
Add: Purchases XXX
Add: Expenses on puchases XXX
XXX
Less : Closing stock of raw matenals XXX
Cost of material consumed
Direct wages
Direct expenses
Prime Cost
Add. Factory overhead
Add : Opening stock of work-in-progress
Less: Closing stock of work-in-progress
Factory or Works Cost
Add Administrative overhead related to
production activities
Cost of Production
Add: Opening stock of firished goods
Less : Closing stock of finished goods
Cost of Goods Sold
Add : Selling and distribution overhead
Add : Administration overheads
(General)
Cost of Sales
Profit ( or Loss)
Sales
Illustration 5.1
The Bangalore Ltd. supplies you the following information and
requires you to prepare a cost sheet.
Stock of raw materiais on ist Sept.,
Stock of raw materials on 3Oth Sept.,2022
2022 75,000
Direct wages 91,500
Indirect wages 52,500
Sales
2,750
Work-in-progress on 1st Sept., 2022 2,00,000
Work-in-progress on 30th Sept., 2022 28,000
Purchases of raw materials
35.000
Factory rent, rates and power
Depreciation of plant and machinery 66,000
Expenses on purchases 15.000
3,500
Carriage outward
1,500
Advertising 2,500
Office rent and taxes
Travellers' wages and commission 3,500
Stock of finished goods on 1st Sept., 2022 2,500
Stock of finished goods on 30th Sept., 2022 6.500
54,000
31,000
(B. Com.. Delhi. Andhra)
Sheet)
Output
Costing(Cost 5.5
nit
or Cost Sheet
for the Month ending 30th Sept., 2022
Solution
Stock ofraw
material (1st Sept.) 75,000
Opening 66,000
Expenses
onpurchases
Purchases 1,500
Sales 2,00,000
AMlustration 5.2
Ihe following cost information relates to the product 'A produced by a company, for the year
ended 31.12.2022.
Opening Direct Material 20,000
Diuect Material Purchases 440,000
Qlosing Direct Material 60,000
Diect Employee Cost 360,000
Carriage Irward 2,400
Chargeable Expenses 7,600
Depreci
&
ation Plant and Machinery
Waste
on 20,000
1,000
ReGasnt&-FaWater-Factory
ctory 12,400
3,000
5.6
Repairs-Factory
Cost AceUL
Office Salaries 14,400
Stationery-Works
Stationery-Office
30,1,600
000
Manager's Salary 1,600
Depreciation-Office Fumiture 60,000
Sales Commission 1,600
Advertising 8,000
Carriage 0utward 10,000
Administrative Overheads relating to production 6,400
Administrative Overheads not relating to production 2,000
Packing Cost (Primary) 10,000
Packing Expenses (Secondary) 4,000
Opening Stock of Finished Goods (1,000 units) 5,000
Closing Stock of Finished Goods (3,000 units) 70,000
Director's Fees 2,40,000
14.000
The company produced 10,000 units during the period. You are required to
prepare
showing the total cost and profit. The company maintains a margin of 20% on total coetaCostCos Shte
Solution
Cost Sheet
for the year ending 31-12-2022
*ClosingStock Valuation
9,36,500
x 3000 units
Units 10, 000
=72,80,950
accounts, closing stock of finished goods is taken at cost of production.
In cost
ITEMS EXCLUDED FROM COST
of financial nature and thus not included
while preparing a cost sheet:
items are
The following 8. Donations
[Link] discount
9. Income-tax paid
2. Interest paid
written off 10. Dividend paid
3. Preliminary expenses 11. Profit/loss on sale of fixed assets
4. Goodwill written off 12. Damages payable at law, etc.
5. Provision for taxation 13. Discount on issue of shares
6. Provision for bad debts
7. Transfer to reserves 14. Appropriation to sinking fund
Exhaustive Cost Sheet (Detailed)
Units produced
Total cost Cost per unit
Particulars
(Contd...)
5.8
Add: fa ond
Cfee Sazries Administrative Ovehezds (Related to Works Cost
Disectud's Fees Production):
Office Statinery ard
Sundry Office ExzensesPrizting
Depreci
Depseci z
atti
inn
atd Beairs f
cf tffice Office Equipmert
Subscri Furriture
çtion to Trade Journals
Ofce Ligtting
EstDiraectbiüostt'smTtentavelCharingnesErpenses
Postage
Legal Charges
Audit Fees
Add: Opering Stock of Firished
Less : Cosing Goods Cost of Production
Stock of
Add : Selling and Firished Goods
Distribution Overheads : Cost of Goods
Sold
(Cost Sheet) 5.9
OutputCosting
Unítor
Advertising
ShomroomExpenses
BadDebts
and Expenses
Salesmen:Salaries
Packingxpense:
Carriageutward
Agents
Commissin of Sales
CourntingHouse Salaries
Cost ofCatalngues
Delivery Vans
Expenses of
Collection Charges
IravellingExpenses
CostofTenders
Warehouse Expenses
Cost of Mailing Literature
Sales Manager's Salaries
Sales Director's Fees
Showtootn Expernses
Sales Office Expenses
Depreciation and Pepairs of Delivery Vans
Branches
Expenses of Sales
Administration Overheads (General)
Cost of Sales (or Total Cost)
PROFIT
Sales
etc.
Treatment of Scrap/By-prodncts
cuttings, trimmings, borings from
In certain manufacturing industries, scrap arises in the form of
realisable value of scrap is deducted
metals or timber, etc. Scrap generally can be sold at a price. Thesheet. This is shown in the following
from factory overheads or factory cost while preparing the cost
illustration.
ustration 5.3
From the following information prepare a cost sheet to show :
Profit.
(a) Prime cost; (b) Works cost; (c) Cost of production ; (d) Cost of sales; and (e)
32,250
Raw materials purchased 850
Carriage on purchases 18,450
Direct wages 2,750
Factory overhead 2,450
Selling overhead 1,850
Office overhead
Sales 75,000
250
Sale of factory scrap
9,750
Opening stock of finished goods 11,100
Closing stock of finished goods
(B. Com. Kerala)
5.10 Cost Accou
Solution
the period
Cost Sheet for
Raw materials
35,250
850
Add: Carriage on purchases
Direct wages (a) Prime Cost
Factory overhead
Problem 5.1
PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
M. Gopal furnishes the
the month of April 2022 : following data relating to the manufacture of a standard product during
Raw materials consumed
Direct labour charges 15,000
Machine hours worked { 9,000
Machine hour rate 900
Admi
Sellingnistratio
overhead
Units produced
n overheads 75
5,700
Units sold Re. 0.50 per unit
You 17,100
() theare required to prepare a cost 16,000 at 4 per unit
(i) cost cost per sheet from the above, showing :
per unitunit,
sold and profit for the
period.
5.12
Total per
Direct materials
Direct labour
15,000
9,000 052
Production overheads (900 hrs. (@ 5per
Prime Cost
hour) 24,000 14
4,500
Less: Closing Stock on Cost of Production
firished goods (1,100 units @ 28,500
1
Solution
month of Jan.
Cost Sheet for the
Dirt matenals
Drt wages Prime Cost
Fton Oarhead
Fatry ent and rates
Plant repair and maintenance
2,500
Plant deprEciation
Factory heating and ighting
1,1,205000
Factory manager's salary 400
Factory Cost 2,000
Oe nd Aministration Oerhead:
0ffice salanes
Director's remuneration 1,600
Telephone and postage
Office rent and rates
1,500
200
Printing and stationery 500
Legal charges 100
150
Cost of Production
Selling and Distribution Overhead:
Advertisement
Salesmen's salaries 1,500
ShowTOOm rent 2,500
500
Total Cost (or cost of sales)
PROFIT 101
Sales 1:
11:
Problem 5.3
From the following
particulars, prepare a cost statement :
Stock, 1-1-2022: Raw
materials
Finished goods
Stock, 31-1-2022: Raw
30,500
20,400
materials
Finished goods
Purchase of raw materials
48.500
10.000
Work-i
Wor k
Sales -inn-progress,
-prOgress, 1-1-2022
31-1-2022
25,000
8,000
Direct wages 9,000
95,000
Factory expenses
Office expenses related to 20,400
Selling expenses production 10,500
Distribution expenses 5,400
3,800
2,500
5.15
0utput
Costing(Cost Sheet)
or
Unit
calculatethe
percentage of works expenses to direct wages and the percentage of office
Also works cost.
(B. Com., Bangalore)
to
expenses
Statement of Costs
Solution
for the month ended 31-1-2022
Problem 5.4
for the year 2022:
In Tespect of a factory the following particulars have been extracted
6,00,000
Cost of materials 5,00,000
Wages
Cost Acou
5.16
Factoryoverheads relatedto
production 33,06,,00 00
Administration
Sellingcharges
charges
21,,420,4,00000
Distributioncharges
Profit
has tobe
executed
andthe
in 2023
estimated expenses are :
4,20,0 0
order
Awork thatinwages
Assuming 2023, 5,000.
therate of factory overheads has gone up by 20%, istribution chatyg
Materials8.000,
administration charges have gone each up by
andsellingand the same rate of profit on the selling
down by
gone overheads
haveFactory
10%
arebebased
the product
as to earn
sold so Once
as in
2020
on wages and addministration, selling and distribution overheads.
priceshov (B. Coom., Delhi,
factory cost.
Solution Statement of cost
Bangale
for the year 2022
Calculation of Rates:
of 1,40,000
Distribution charges as a percentage factory cost 14,00,000 x 100 = 10%
4.
percentage of total cost 4,20,000
x 100 = 20%
Prrofit as a 21,00,000
5.
Statement of Estimated Cost and Profit on Work Order in 2023
Materials 8,000
Wages 5,000
Prime Cost
13,000
Overheads (60% of wages, increased by 20%, i.e., 72°%)
Factory 3,600
Factory Cost
16,600
Administration Charges (24% of factory cost, increased by 15%%, i.e.,
Cost of Production
27.6%) 4,581
Selling Charges (16% of factory cost, increased by 15%, i.e., 18.4%) 21,181
3,054
Distribution Charges (10% of factory cost, decreased by 10%, i.e., 9%) 1,494
Cost of Sales
Profit (20% on cost 25,729
of sales)
5,146
Price to be quoted
30,875
Problemn 5.5
The accounts of a machine manutacturing company disclose the following information for the
months ending 31st Dec., 2022. six
Materials used
1,50,000
Direct wages
Factory overhead expenses 1,20,000
24,000
Administration expenses Ielated to production
Prepare a Cost Sheet of the machines and 17,640
the manufacture of a calculate price which the company should quote for
the
wages of 750, so thatmachine requiring materials
the price may yield a valued at 1,250 and expenditure on
For the purpose of price profit of 20% on the selling
price.
productive
charge office overhead as a quotation, charge factory overhead as a
percentage of works cost. percentage of direct wages and
(B.B.M. Bangalore; B. Com., Madurai Kamraj)
5.18
Cost Aed
Solution Cost Sheet
of six months
ending 31st Dec. 2022
for theperiod
Materials used
Direct wages Prime Cost
overhead expenses
Factory Works or Factory Cost
Administration and general expenses
Cost of Production
Adyertising
the year.
and
Prepare a Costselling cost is 40 paise per
150
Sheet. tonne sold. 3,000 tonnes of the (B.B.M.
soldduat
were Adggte
commodity
Bangatore
5.19
Output
Costing (Cost Sheet)
or
Unit
FactoryOverheads: 2,000
Rent, insurance, etc.
400 2,400
Factory supervision Cost of Production 13,400
of finished goods 800
Opening stock 14,200
Add:
400 tonnes
of finished goods 13, 400x 1,675
Less:
Cllosing stock 3,200 tonnes
Cost of Goods Sold 12,525
1,200
per tonne sold for 3,000 tonnes)
overhead (@ 40 paise Cost of Sales 13,725
Selling Profit 1,275
Sales 15.000
Problem 5.8
following details are available from a company's books:
The
10,800
on 1-1-2022
Stock of raw material 28,000
on 1-1-2022
Stock of finished goods 2,94,000
Purchases during the year 1,98,800
Productive wages 5,92,000
Sales of finished goods 30,000
Stock of finished goods on 31-12-2022 13,600
Stock of raw material on 31-12-2022 43,736
Works overhead 35,524
Office expenses related to production
plant. The costing department estimates that the
The company is about to send a tender for large20,000 and wages for making the plant would cost
material required for its production would cost
12,000. ender is to be made keeping a net profit of 20% on the selling price. State what would be
( (B. Com., Lucknow)
the amount of the tender, if based on the percentages.