Costing Practice Manual Help
C.A Manish Arya (C.A, M.B.A) (408 Points)
08 July 2011C.A Manish Arya (C.A, M.B.A) (408 Points)
08 July 2011
preeti
(trainee)
(28 Points)
Replied 27 July 2011
Hi,
my understanding on the above questions is as follows:
Q6. Fixed marketing costs under both absorption costing and marginal costing are not to be considered while valuing stock. However, while computing profits all costs are to be considered. Operating profit, as required by the question, implies net profit and not gross profit/ trading profit as in the accounting parlance.
Q23. Return on investment is the return on fixed assets employed for producing product Z. Fixed assets once invested in the business will be used for the entire year for the particular product. Return on such fixed assets must be computed considering the full capacity of such assets.
Return on working capital implies the return on the working capital required for producing product Z. Accordingly, the total working capital has been divided by the total no. of units produced in the year.
Hope this is helpful.
Regards,
Preeti.
preeti
(trainee)
(28 Points)
Replied 27 July 2011
The question clearly mentions that the working capital is specifically for product Z. So return is computed specificaly with respect to product Z.
However in case of fixed assets, the question says other products are manufactured using same P&M and product z utilizes 30% capacity (which creates the confusion). but at same time, the question requires us to obtain 21% return on investment which i guess they have intrepreted as 21% ROI to be recovered through product Z while a different % will recovered from other products.