[palenzo]

Toys (Pty) Ltd is a cupboard manufacturing concern. The following information was obtained from the records for the month ended 31 January 2007:

Units
Opening stock 6 000
Budgeted units from this month 20 000
Actual Production 22 000
Actual Sales 24 000

Actual selling price per unit $ 50.00
Actual variable cost per unit $ 20.00
Actual and budgeted fixed overheads for the month $ 120 000

Question:
Prepare profit statements to clearly show the results for the month ending 31 January 2007 by using the following methods: Marginal costing system
Absorption costing system

[morgaine300]

First, you need to read the note at the top which says to put homework problems over in the homework forum. If you go over there, you will also see a sticky note asking that you don't just submit nothing but a problem, because we are not here to do your homework for your. We're here to help you out with concepts and let you know if you're correct in answers, etc. Always post any attempts you've made to do the problem and or just ask a general question about the concepts, and then we can help you out.

That said, first thing you need to do is get your total sales and costs down. Ignore the budgeted stuff. It's asking for actual statements, not budgeted statements. Anything that is PER UNIT has to be multiplied by actual production to get actual totals. So that comes first. Fixed costs are left as they are, because they're fixed and don't depend on production level.

Different books call this different names. I believe what they are calling "marginal" costing is probably what I'd called "variable" costing. The absorption -- I always forget that one cause cost accounting is not actually my area -- but I believe that's what I'd just called a "normal" statement. i.e. the kind you learned to do before you got to all this manufacturing stuff.

The variable costing is something you need to know and understand anyway. The top portion is the things that vary by production, followed by fixed:

Sales Price
-Variable Costs
=Contribution margin
-Fixed costs
=Operating Income

If you're including fixed and doing an entire statement, then the above needs to be in totals.

A 'regular' statement is what you should have learned long ago:

Sales
-COGS
=Gross Profit
-Operating Expenses
=Operating Income

I don't see where you have the information available to do this second one.

[janelle woods]

marginal costing =
sales
add opening inventory
add production
less closing inventory

From sales
less variable cost of sales
= contribution
less fixed overheads
=Profit

[janelle woods]

20000

[morgaine300]

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