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Thilanka Warnakulasooriya
B.Com Special (Col), ACA
Accounting for Overhead
Overhead
General OH
Overhead Allocation, apportionment & absorption
Steps.
i.e. Cutting supervisor salary directly identified to the cutting cost center
Rent, rates, heating and light, Floor area occupied by each cost
repairs and depreciation of centre
building
Deprecation and insurance of Cost or book value of equipment
equipment
i.e. Garment factory monthly electricity bill was Rs. 200,000. Factory consist of 4 cost
centers . The floor area occupied by each cost center are as follows.
Simultaneous Equation
Method
Only to
Repeated Distribution Production
Method Department
Ex 06.
11
Over and under absorption of
overheads
The rate of overhead absorption is based on estimates ( of both
numerator and denominator) and it is quite likely that either one or
both of the estimates will nit agree with what actually occurs