Illustrations of Cost Accounting
Illustrations
Illustration
1:
Prepare the cost sheet to show
the total cost of production and cost per unit of goods manufactured by a
company for the month of july 2012. Also find out the cost of sales.

The
number of units produced during july, 2012 was 3,000.
The stock of finished goods was 200 and 400 units on 1-7-2012 and
31-7-202 respectively. The total cost of units on hand on 1-7-2012 was Rs.2,800.
All these have been sold during the month.

From the following particulars,
prepare a cost sheet for the year ending 31-12-2011.
Management expenses should be allocated in the
ratio of 2:1:3 on factory, office and sales departments.

Illustration
3:
the
following particulars relate to a company for a period of
Prepare a statement of cost for the period and
compute the price to be quoted for 500 units in order to realise the same
profit as for the period under review, assuming no alternation in wages and
cost of materials.

Illustration 4:
The
following information has been taken from a factory: | Rupees |
Materials | 50,000 |
Direct
wages | 40,000 |
Factory
overheads | 30,000 |
Administration
overheads | 20,000 |
You are required to fix the selling price of a
machine costing rs.4,200 in materials and rs.3,000 in wages so that it yields a
profit of 25% on selling price.
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