It is to be carefully noted that at the time of making primary distribution, the distinction between production and service departments is ignored. In addition to direct costs, indirect distribution costs to be allocated between the two products are as follows. Cost Account numbers are used for covering the Administration, Selling and Distribution overheads. This will relate to how the cost has been incurred. The following basis are most commonly used for apportioning items of overhead Direct Materials 30,000 35,000 45,000 - - - 1,10, good deal of attention has to be paid to them. iii. production in the current year. Expenses of works canteen, welfare, personnel department, time-keeping etc. PRIMARY DISTRIBUTION OF OVERHEADS Primary distribution of overhead involves allocation or apportionment of different items of overhead to all departments of a factory. (i) Rent, rates and Overhead cost comprises indirect material, indirect labour and indirect expanses. ix. Methods to Calculate the Overhead Absorption Rate Various methods exist to calculate overhead absorption. So it is the allotment of whole item of cost to a cost centre or cost unit or refers to the charging of expenses which can be identified wholly with a particular department. i. The next service department is taken up and its cost is apportioned and this process goes on till the cost of the last service department is apportioned. iii. indirect material cost can also be allocated to different cost centres according to use by pricing stores (ii) Repeated distribution method: 1. (iv) Analytical method: Under this method, the degree of variability is estimated for each item of semi- (i) Rent, rates and Direct labour hours Works managers remuneration, general overtime [CDATA[ ii. (x) Technical Estimates: This basis of apportionment is used for the apportionment of those expenses for which it is difficult, to find out any other basis of apportionment. overhead expenses the following are some of the primary documents used:-. costs into fixed and variable costs, Advantages of classification of overheads departments. In other words, apportionment involves charging a share of the overheads to a cost centre or cost unit. Overheads relating to service cost centres. Under this method, service departments costs are apportioned to production departments only ignoring service rendered by one service department to another. 3. (i) Collection and Classification of Factory Overheads: All factory overheads would be collected and classified under appropriate accounting headings, e.g., factory rent, insurance, lighting, depreciation etc. depreciation (as a whole) semi-variable. i. A department may be either production department or service department depending upon the nature and function. iv. comprises direct overhead expenses incurred in the departments itself as well as the apportioned overhead Content Filtration 6. Allocation is the process of identification of overheads with cost centres. An expense which is directly identifiable with a specific cost centre is allocated to that centre. factory plant etc. Machinery 300 350 250 - - 150 1, Expenses in relation to a department may be direct but are indirect in of the use of owned assets. Disclaimer 8. Image Guidelines 4. is determined as follows: Actual overhead rate = = 3. Insurance on tools and fixtures, power, repairs and maintenance cost etc. For example, Department A incurred $3,000 for the salary of a supervisor that is specifically related to Department A. Administrative & Selling & distribution When the ratio of skilled and unskilled labour is constant. The principle is that if an overhead item cannot be fully allocated to one cost center, it should be apportioned over related cost centers. (iv) Sundry expenses Account. In a factory a product does not pass through Service department (S), but service department renders service to production departments for carrying on production function. This is because fixed expenses would not managers, etc. Stores O. material 3,573 4,168 5,359 - (-)13,100 - -. (i) Rent 12, Machine hour rate is one of the methods of absorbing factory overhead. Total overheads Direct labour hours. If service department apportion its cost to production departments and other service departments and that other service departments likewise apportion their costs to production departments and apportion back to other service departments until total cost of both service departments are apportion to the production departments. because they contain both fixed and variable element. i. The following points highlight the top two methods of apportionment of overheads. The typical procedure for allocating overhead is to accumulate all manufacturing overhead costs into one or more cost pools, and to then use an activity measure to apportion the overhead costs in the cost pools to inventory. Then by judgment a line of best fit which passes through all or most of. Direct expenses The factory also keeps four service departments viz. No. 1. Indirect costs are those costs that cannot be charged directly to a specific product. 2. However, it should be noted that an expenditure is fixed within specified limit relating to time or ), Macroeconomics (Olivier Blanchard; Alessia Amighini; Francesco Giavazzi), Fundamentals of Aerodynamics (John David Anderson), Pdf Printing and Workflow (Frank J. Romano), Environmental Pollution and Control (P. Arne Vesilin; Ruth F. Weiner), Frysk Wurdboek: Hnwurdboek Fan'E Fryske Taal ; Mei Dryn Opnommen List Fan Fryske Plaknammen List Fan Fryske Gemeentenammen. products which pass through these departments. This rate wages analysis sheet is prepared each month and at the end of the month, the total is debited to Factory Apportionment of Apportionment of Overhead: Method # 1. Such sub-divisions are referred This is also known as departmentalization or primary distribution of overheads. Before uploading and sharing your knowledge on this site, please read the following pages: 1. The primary apportionment stage is when overheads are apportioned to all departments in the organization (both production and service departments) without considering any reciprocal transfer of benefits. If costly equipment is used, the overhead is high and vice versa in the case of using hand tools. benefits likely to be received). The second step of absorption costing is apportionment. 3. 4. associations iii. You are required to prepare an overhead analysis sheet for the departments showing clearly the basis of Carrying amount of assets For Depreciation, maintenance and insurance of plant and machinery, Kilowatt hours consumed For electricity and power, Machine hours For Machines running expenditure. responsibility for incurring this expenditure is determined in relation to output. There are four steps of Absorption Costing: In this article, we are going to discuss Allocation and Apportionment. There are three methods for dealing with the distribution of inter-departmental services: Under this method, the cost of one service department is apportioned to another service department and the cost of another service department plus the share received from first service department is again apportioned to first service department and this process is continued till the balancing figure is negligible. from the Then the service departments may be ignored for apportioning the expenses. Apportionment of Stores O.H. expenses pertaining to a cost centre are ultimately to be charged to the products, jobs etc. department contribution, general welfare expenses, compensation and other fringe benefits, supervisions etc. Items of Factory Overhead 2. Prohibited Content 3. This amount of overheads does not change because the work is being done on copper instead of iron. The indirect nature of overheads means that they need to be shared out among the cost units as fairly and as accurately as possible. the budgeted overhead expenses for the accounting period by the budgeted base for the period i. Pre-determined overhead rate = Depreciation Actual depreciation as per Plant Register. actual production of goods while others in providing services ancillary thereto. The first stage in the analysis of overheads is the selection of approximate cost centres. Unlike materials prices, labour rates do not fluctuate so frequently. Primary Distribution and Secondary Distribution. 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Apportionment is done in case of those overhead items which cannot be wholly allocated to a particular department. Account Disable 12. of working hours 1,000 2,500 1, Indirect materials originate in store requisitions. (vi) Travelling, hotel and other incidental expenses incurred on a particular contract. Similarly overheads absorption rates are applied. proportion to volume. Primary distribution involves apportionment or allocation of overhead to all departments in a factory on logical and rational basis. AccountingNotes.net. - p + 10q = 26,000 (vi). are incurred for the factory as a whole, and, therefore, these will have to be apportioned overall the departmentsboth Production as well as . workshop O. units. Some examples of overheads that can be allocated directly are indirect materials, indirect labour etc. Department X produces 10,000 units of product A and Department Y produces 90,000 units of product B in a particular period. iv. Under this method service department overheads are charged to production departments on the basis of potential rather than actual services rendered. A manufacturing company has three production departments and two service departments. Floor area Rent, rates and taxes paid for the building, air once that level is exceeded, they vary without having direct relationship with volume changes. (viii)Light Points: This is used for apportioning lighting expenses. The cost of last service department is apportioned among production departments only. 6. iv. = 7,176 - (2,088 x 2) iii. labour welfare dept., canteen, time keeping, repairs and maintenance, tool room, hospital etc. Your email address will not be published. The following steps are involved in this method: (i) Apply the given percentages to distribute the primary total of first service department. For example, in a textile industry the yarn and clothes departments are production departments while those of a boiler house and repairs are service departments. An. endobj
Service department P (90% of 4,612) 1,384 1,845 922 (ii) Departmentalisation of Factory Overheads: The term departmentalisation of overheads refers to the allocation and apportionment of overheads among various departments. The extra amount It will be a big mistake to pay attention only to direct cost. (ii) Step method: In this method the cost of most serviceable department is first, apportioned to other In the production departments, with the help of manual and or machine operations the raw materials are converted to finished goods. Apportionment refers to the distribution of overheads among departments or cost centres on an equitable xSKk08 As many of the overheads also vary with time, this method produces satisfactory results. Generally overheads are classified on the following basis: (1) Functional analysis A, B and C. Absorption of overheads refers to charging of overheads to individual products or jobs. Each heading will be given an appropriate standing order number. This process of apportionment is also known as departmentalisation of overhead. cannot be charged wholly to a particular department or cost centre, but will have to be charged to all departments or cost centers on an equitable basis. Total H. of Machinery 15 20 25 - - 5 65 The Bengal Wholesale Co. is making a study of the relative profitability of the two products it handles. maintenance of iii. production departments on a suitable basis. Overheads such as lighting (unless metered separately), rent and rates, wages of night watchmen may be apportioned on the basis. There may be two or more service departments in a factory and they may render service to each other. endobj
When this method is followed, the number of secondary distribution will be equal to number of secondary department. Apportionment is done in (vi)Floor Area of Departments: This basis is adopted for the apportionment of certain expenses like lighting and heating, rent, rates, taxes, maintenance on building, air conditioning, fire precaution services etc. The process of distribution is usually known as Primary Distribution. The basis of Apportionment of Overheads. For example, the salary paid to the works manager of the factory, factory rent, general manager's salary etc. basis. This is a huge amount that needs to be considered when costing the products and making pricing decisions, so that this expenditure can be recovered from the sales income. //]]>. This process continues till the cost of last service department is apportioned. xOK0{ acP nm6Px;IZd`.BF')Ns&'F+).7jM
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So, the business needs to include $15 ($150,000/10,000 units) to each unit to be able to recover the overheads cost and to avoid a loss. overheads. Under this backdrop, the second step is to distribute the total cost of service departments among the production departments. In other words, apportionment involves charging a share of the overheads to a cost centre or cost unit. Overheads, Treatment of factory overheads, The departments in a factory can be broadly categorised into the following types: (i) Producing or manufacturing departments: A manufacturing or producing department is one in There are some overheads that can be specifically traced to a distinct cost center. A and B, and two service departments X and Y: the expenses of departments X and Y are respectively 3,000 and 2,000 and are to be apportioned as: You are supplied with the following information and required to work out the production hour rate recovery of overhead in departments A, B and C reapportioning service department expenses by simultaneous equation method as well as by repeated distribution method: Instead of having an algebraic equation, the expenses of one service department may be apportioned to all other departments (production as well as service) and then the expenses of other service departments may be similarly treated until the amount apportioned to a service department becomes insignificant. <>
Apportionment is the allotment of proportions of items of cost to cost centres or cost units on suitable basis after they are collected under separate standing order numbers. repairs and July 2,820 8,640 +732 +1464 5,35,824 10,71. Working hours 1,000 2,500 1, Using these methods, overheads are recovered, charged to, or absorbed in the factory cost. (4,612) (3,061). Reapportionment and OAR are explained separately. These departments are essential for smooth and efficient running of production departments. These are called partly producing departments. It deals with the whole items of cost. Disclaimer 9. Swill Co. Ltd. has three production departments and two service departments. maintenance of The factory overhead is first apportioned to the different machines or groups of machines. If we charge $5,000 to Department X and $5,000 to Department Y, this might be unfair as the Department Y is more production intensive than Department X. . (v) Light 1. on some equitable basis. An analytical study thus can make it possible for all semi-variable Therefore, this method gives stable results. expenses. the total cost of direct material and direct labour. When service department is giving its services to other service departments and production departments then following method are used. items by nature are direct but treated as indirect because the amounts chargeable are either of small or 1. iii. The reason is that overhead depends upon the time instead of output. Bases of absorption. Thus it is indirect process of allotment. This assumption is not valid since service departments not only render service to production departments but also mutually. insurance of Machine and produced 10,000 units. Distinctive features of indian and western political thought. (ii)Direct Labour/Machine Hours: Under this basis, the overhead expenses are distributed to various departments in the ratio of total number of labour or machine hours worked in each department. (20% 3,000 of Q) 600 Direct Labour hours or Machinery hours. Thus, the wages paid to maintenance workers as The figures in the illustration given in the beginning under simultaneous equation method may be treated as below: Solve previous illustration according to Repeated Distribution Method. The number of such departments will depend upon the nature of industry, type of work etc. product or salable service.. volume of output. 6 0 obj
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An algebraical equation will be needed to ascertain the true expenses of a service department in such cases. iii. the Cost Ledger Control Account. All rights reserved. The departmentalisation is done at sources. Difference 1,320 2, Lesson 4 Direct Expenses and Overheads 157. ii. Such expenses require division and apportionment over two or more cost centres or units. (iii) Depreciation, service departments to another service department. medical, The business also has to recover the cost of these overheads and needs to include them in the cost of the product. For example, if a toolroom manufactures ascertained first with the help of simultaneous equations. If the overheads of a machine cost centre are divided by the effective machine hours, we get machine hour rate pertaining to the machine or the group of machines. Group insurance, canteen expenses, E.S.I. Indirect Wages 3,000 3,000 4,000 10,000 10,000 5,000 35, (iii) Expenses on This website uses cookies and third party services. 4. xn@HYDt,][,.
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The main principle is that if the price available is above the variable or marginal cost, profits would increase Service department P 4 5 3 12 Before publishing your articles on this site, please read the following pages: 1. plant, machinery, screws, thread, glue, etc. This method must be compliant with the terms of the lease. IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements, Charging to overhead to specific department, If OH relate to more than one department then they are apportioned on suitable basis, Apportionment is made on reasonable basis like area, number of employees, Service departments like canteens offer services but do not have production, Cost of these services center is charged to production centers, Secondary apportionment can be made by three ways: elimination, repeated distribution, algebraic methods, Simultaneous Equation Method When there are only two service departments. 5. 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