Learning Outcomes:
1: Critically evaluate the various approaches to performance measurement and control in various types of organisations, and devise and evaluate indicators of performance;
2. Demonstrate the need for a balance between financial and non-financial information in decision making, control and performance evaluation applications of management accounting;
3. Analyze a company's financial statements and/or management reports and identify the strengths and weaknesses of the company and articulate these to the various stakeholders.
Part 1: The following data refer to Nani's Fashions for the current year:
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Sales Revenues
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$475,000
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Work in process inventory, 31 December
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15,000
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Work in process inventory, 1 January
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20,000
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Selling and administrative expenses
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75,000
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Income tax expense
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45,000
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Purchase of raw materials
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90,000
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Raw materials inventory, 31 December
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12,500
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Raw material inventory. 1 January
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20,000
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Direct labour
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100,000
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Electricity: plant
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20,000
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Depreciation plant and equipment
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30,000
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Finished goods inventory, 31 December
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25,000
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Finished goods inventory, 1 January
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10,000
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Indirect material
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5,000
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Indirect labour
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7,500
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Other manufacturing overhead
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40,000
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Required:
a) Prepare the schedule of cost of goods manufactured for Nani's fashion.
b) Prepare the schedule of cost of goods sold for Nani's Fashions and explain the information provided by the schedule of cost of goods sold.
c) Prepare an income statement for the current year.
Part 2:
Brisbane Indoor Sports, a sporting complex, has opening hours that fluctuate from month to month. The electricity costs and hours of operation for past six months is listed below:
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Month
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Total hours of operation
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Total electricity cost
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January
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650
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$4,240
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February
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700
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$4,400
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March
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800
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$4,800
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April
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600
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$4,200
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May
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550
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$3,700
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June
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500
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$3,600
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Required:
a) Use the high-low method to estimate the cost behaviour for the complex's electricity costs, assuming that the variable costs vary in proportion to the hours of operation. Express the total cost behaviour in formula form (Y = a + bx). What is the variable electricity cost per hour of operation?
b) During July, the complex will open for 570 hours. Predict the complex's total electricity costs for July using the cost estimation method employed in above requirement a).
c) What is the main drawback of the high-low method of cost estimation?
Part 3:
Toys World started and finished job number A26, a batch of 1,000 cuddly koalas, during March 2020. The job required $4,850 of direct material and 32 hours of direct labour at $20 per hour. The predetermined overhead rate is $10.50 per direct labour hour. On 31st March, 900 of the cuddly koalas were shipped to a local toy shop.
Required:
a) Prepare journal entries to record the incurrence of production costs, completion of job number A26 and the shipment of 900 cuddly koalas to local toy shop.
b) Calculate the cost per cuddly koala for job number A26.
c) How might the managers at Toys World use this information?
Attachment:- Managerial Accounting.rar