Which of the following would be considered a service industry?
(i) An airline company
(ii) A railway company
(iii) A firm of accountants
The following information relates to a management consultancy organisation:
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Salary cost per hour for senior consultants 40
Salary cost per hour for junior consultants 25
Overhead absorption rate per hour applied to all hours 20
The organisation adds 40% to total cost to arrive at the final fee to be charged to a client. Assignment number 789 took 54 hours of a senior consultant's time and 110 hours of junior consultants' time. What is the final fee to be charged for Assignment 789?
A company operates a job costing system. Job number 1012 requires $45 of direct materials and $30 of direct labour. Direct labour is paid at the rate of $7.50 per hour. Production overheads are absorbed at a rate of $12.50 per direct labour hour and non-production overheads are absorbed at a rate of 60% of prime cost.What is the total cost of job number 1012?
Last year, Bryan Air carried excess baggage of 250,000 kg over a distance of 7,500 km at a cost of $3,750,000 for the extra fuel.What is the cost per kg-km?
The following question is taken from the December 2012 exam paper.
A truck delivered sand to two customers in a week. The following details are available.
Customer Weight of goods delivered (kilograms) 500 (kilograms)
X 500 200
Y 180 1,200
680 1,400
The truck cost $3,060 to operate in the week. Each customer delivery was carried out separately, and the truck made no other deliveries in the week.What is the cost per kilogram/kilometre of sand delivered in the week (to the nearest $0.001)?
Last month a manufacturing company's profit was $2,000, calculated using absorption costing principles. If marginal costing principles had been used, a loss of $3,000 would have occurred. The company's fixed production cost is $2 per unit. Sales last month were 10,000 units.
What was last month's production (in units}?
________units
When opening inventory was 8,500 litres and closing inventory was 6,750 litres, a firm had a profit of $62,100 using marginal costing.
Assuming that the fixed overhead absorption rate was $3 per litre, what would be the profit using absorption costing?
$______
What is the EOQ for raw material Y?
What is the total annual cost of purchasing, ordering and holding inventory of raw material Y?
The supplier has offered Point a discount of 1% on the purchase price if each order placed is for 2,000 units.What is the total annual saving to Point of accepting this offer?