Posted: December 12th, 2014

Business Case study

Business Case study

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Masters  in  Management  BMAN  73071  Introduction  to  Accounting
Second  Assessment  –  Management  Accounting
Please  attempt  all  Three  questions.
Question 1
Alfa Manufacturing makes parts for the automobile industry. The company
currently uses traditional allocation of fixed overhead cost based on budgeted
direct labour hours. For next year 20,000 direct labour hours are budgeted.
The plant manager has heard of a new way of overhead costs allocation that
uses cost pools and cost drivers. Having investigated this new system further,
the plant manager together with a management accountant identified three
main activities and the cost drivers for each activity. They assigned the fixed
overhead cost to each activity and identified expected level of each cost driver
as follows:
Cost of Activity
Maintenance
£120,000
Cost driver
Machine hours
5,000
Equipment Setup
£34,000
Number of setups
200
Quality Inspection
£60,000
Number of quality inspections
1,000
A new customer approached Alfa Manufacturing and asked to submit a bid for
a proposed job. The plant manager feels that obtaining this job is a special
opportunity that would result in new business in future years.
Estimates for the proposed job are as follows:
Direct materials:
The job requires 3,000 kg of material K which is used regularly by the
company in its production. The company has 2,000 kg of material K currently
in stock which was purchased last month for a total cost of £1,960. Since then
the price per kilogram for material K has increased by 10%.
The job also requires 4,000 kg of material L. There are 4,500 kg of material L
in stock which are not required for normal production. This material originally
cost a total of £3,150. If not used for the job, the stock of material L would be
sold for £0.50 per Kg.
Direct labour:
100 semi-skilled labour hours are required for this job. These hours will be
worked by existing employees who currently have sufficient spare capacity to
complete the proposed job. They are permanently employed by the business
on a salary equivalent to £20 per hour.
For the purpose of this job, the business will have to employ a highly skilled
worker who will be contracted for 50 hours and paid £40 per hour.
Fixed manufacturing overheads:
The management accountant estimates that the total amount of fixed
overheads will not change if Alfa Manufacturing decides to undertake this
special job. However this job will consume the following level of three main
activities:
Number of machine hours
Number of setups
Number of quality inspections
80
8
6
Required:
a) Calculate the full cost of the proposed job using the traditional
overhead cost allocation, considering budgeted direct labour hours
as the basis of cost allocation.
(6 Marks)
b) Calculate the full cost for the proposed job using Activity-based
costing.
(5 Marks)
c) Prepare a memo for the management comparing and outlining the
main features of the traditional full (absorption) costing and activitybased costing, and explaining which one produces the more accurate
cost assignment.
(6 Marks)
d) Show with supporting explanations the minimum price Alfa
Manufacturing can offer to the new customer for the special job such
that it would be neither better nor worse off as a result of undertaking it.
(5 Marks)
(e) Explain which of the two methods (full absorption method versus
relevant costing method) you would recommend Alfa Manufacturing
adopts in costing this special Job.
(3 Marks)
Total 25 Marks
Question 2:
Mark plc makes 3 products, K, L, and M. Estimates for the next year
include the following:
Product
Selling price (per unit)
Materials cost (per unit)
Other variable costs (per
unit)
Allocated fixed costs
Sales demand (in units)
K
£50
£12
L
£45
£8
M
£60
£18
£10
£5
700
£4
£5
1,500
£7
£6
1,200
To manufacture these products, the business uses a special machine
which has a limited capacity of 5000 hours per year. Products K, L, and M
require 2, 3 and 2 machine hours respectively for the production of one
unit.
(a) State, with supporting workings, which products and in which
quantities the business should plan to produce next year in order to
maximise its profits.
(10 marks)
(b) CVP is both simple and simplistic. If you want realistic analysis to
underpin your decisions, look beyond CVP. Do you agree? Explain
(5 marks)
Total 15 Marks
Question 3
A large textile business is considering a capital investment in a new
piece of equipment in its Eastern European division to diversify its
product range and increase its market share.
It is said that when a business is evaluating a capital investment only
relevant costs and benefits are to be considered. Give two examples of
relevant and two examples of irrelevant costs or benefits in the
context of capital investment appraisal, and explain why you
consider them to be so. Discuss three non-financial factors that the
large textile business should consider when making capital investment
decision.
Total 10 marks

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