NMIMS - Cost & Management Accounting

 

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Cost & Management Accounting

 

1. Vimla Spice Company exports spices to Europe and the Middle East. Given the slowdown in business due to the recent COVID-19 impact, their profits have been impacted significantly and actual profits are lower than budgeted sales by almost 30 to 40%. The Management was extremely concerned and called for a meeting of the top team to decide the way forward.

The following 2 decisions were taken in the meeting:

a. Identify new markets for exporting spices to increase Sales

b. Hire a Management accountant to understand how they can reduce costs etc Mr Bond was hired as the Management accountant and he submitted his report to the Management within a month. The Management had thought profit reduction was primarily o/a Sales Variance but were indeed surprised to see the report as there were several other variances analyzed by Mr Bond concerning various elements of costs, sales and profit as follows:

1. Material cost variances

2. Labour cost variances

3. Overhead variances

4. Sales variances

5. Profit variances

a) Describe Standard Costing and its applicability in specific industries

Solutions:

Standard costing is a specialized technique of costing under which we fix up the standard costs which are predetermined. Once the actual operation is done, we compare the predetermined prices with the actual. After comparison, we calculate the deviations, which know as a variance. That is the reason this chapter is also known as variance analysis. This chapter has been made explicitly for controlling purposes, and it is a powerful tool for management accounting. The system of standard costing thus

2. "Eat Healthily" is a start-up venture started by Ram and Lakhan planning to sell sugar-free cakes, cookies, multi-grain bread, etc. They are confused as to which type of Costing method should be employed by them, job costing or Process Costing. Describe job costing and Process costing to them and explain the differences between Process costing and Job costing (Any 5). (10 Marks) 

Answer :

Job Costing is one of the Methods of Costing. According to this method, costs are collected and accumulated according to the job, represents the unit of value.

Type of production activity suitable for job costing:

(a)   When jobs are executed for different customers according to their specifications.

(b)  When no two orders are alike, and each order/job needs special treatment.

(c)   Each job maintains its separate identity throughout the production stage.

(d)  Where the work in progress differs from period to period based on the number of jobs in

(e)    

 

 

3. The following data is available for Lucky Soap Manufacturing Co for the year ended 31st March 2020: -

Particulars                                                                    Amt (Rs)

The stock of Materials: Opg                                                         1, 75,000

Closing stock                                                                          2, 00,000

Materials purchased during the year                                   7, 50,000

Direct wages paid                                                                  2, 25,000

Indirect Wages                                                                           28,000

Salaries to administrative staff                                                40,000

Repairs to plant and machinery                                               36,800

Electricity Charges                                                                    50,000

Office Expenses                                                                            7,300

Traveling expenses                                                                   18,000

Salespeople have and commission                                               28,000

Depreciation is written off: Plant and machinery                        36,400

Depreciation is written off: Office Furniture                                  5,400

Office Manager's salary                                                              48,000

Rent, rates, and Taxes- Office                                                       7,500

Rent, rates, and Taxes- Factory                                                  12,000

Fuel                                                                                              64,000

 

a. Calculate the Factory overheads and Other Overheads. (5 Marks)

b. Assist the MD of the company in calculating the following:- - 

·       Prime Cost

·       Factory Cost and

·       Cost of Sale

Minimum Sales amount if the profit margin has to be fixed at 20% on Cost.

(5 Marks) 

Solutions a ):

Factory overhead

Particulars

Amount

 

 

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