Accounting 9706 · AS & A Level · Traditional costing methods

Traditional costing methods — practice question

A business applies its overheads using direct labour hours. The information below relates to its most recent period: - Overheads: actual $640 000, budgeted $620 000 - Labour hours: actual 13 100 hours, budgeted 12 400 hours Calculate by how much the overheads were over-absorbed or under-absorbed.

  • Aover-absorbed by $15 000
  • Bunder-absorbed by $15 000
  • Cover-absorbed by $20 000
  • Dunder-absorbed by $20 000

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