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TRIAL

1. Atua Afari company produces and sells a single product, a wooden hand loom for
weaving small items such as scarves. selected cost and operating data relating to the
product for two years are given below:
$
Selling price per unit 50
Manufacturing costs:
Variable per unit produced:
Direct material 11
Direct labour 6
Variable o/h 3
Fixed per year 120, 000

Selling and admin costs:


Variable per unit sold 5
Fixed per year 70, 000

Year 1 Year 2
Units in beginning inventory 0 2,000
Units produced during the year 10,000 6,000
Units sold during the year 8,000 8,000
Units in ending inventory 2,000 0

NB: the normal capacity of Afua Afari company is 8000 units


Required:
i. Assume the company uses absorption costing; compute the unit cost in each
year and prepare an income statement for each year
ii. Assume the company uses variable costing; compute the unit cost in each year
and prepare an income statement for each year

2. A product passes through three processes A, B and C. The normal wastage of each process is
as follows: Process A – 3 per cent, Process B – 5 per cent, and Process C – 8 per cent.
Wastage of Process A was sold at 25 pesewas per unit, that of Process B at 50 pesewas per
unit and that of Process C at GH₵1 per unit. 10,000 units were issued to Process A in the
beginning of October 2017 at a cost of GH₵1 per unit. The other expenses were as follows:
Process A Process B Process C
Sundry materials (GH₵) 1,000 1,500 500
Labour (GH₵) 5,000 8,000 6,500
Direct expenses (GH₵) 1,050 1,188 2,009
Actual output 9,500 units 9,100 units 8,100 units
Required:
Prepare the process accounts, the abnormal loss (gains) account and the scrap account
3. C Ltd manufactures a range of products and the data below refer to one product which goes
through one process only. The company operates a 13 four-weekly reporting system for
process and products costs and the data given below relate to Period 10.

There was no opening WIP stock.


5,000 units of materials input at GH¢ 2.94 per unit entered the process.
GH¢
Further direct materials added 13,830
Direct wages incurred 6,555
Production overhead 7,470
Normal loss is 3% of input.
Closing WIP was 800 units but these were incomplete, having reached the following
percentages of completion for each of the elements of cost listed:
%
Direct materials added 75
Direct wages 50
Production overhead 25
270 units were scrapped after a quality control check when the units were at the following
degrees of completion.
%
Direct materials added 662⁄3
Direct wages 331⁄3
Production overhead 162⁄3
Units scrapped, regardless of the degree of completion, are sold for GH¢ 1 each and it is
company
policy to credit the process account with the scrap value of normal loss units.
Required:
i. Prepare the Period 10 process account.
ii. Calculate the abnormal gain or loss account.
iii. Scrap a/c

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