Model: Combination of Labour hour and Machine hour methods

The following information relates to the activities of a production department for a certain period in a factor:

Materials used

36,000

Direct wages

30,000

Hours of machine operation

10,000

Labour hours worked

12,000

Overheads chargeable to the department

24,000

On one order carried out in the department during the period, the relevant data collected were as follows:

Materials used

2,000

Direct wages

1,650

Labour hours

825

Machine hours

600

You are required to prepare a comparative statement of cost of this order by using the following three methods of recovery of overheads:

  1. Direct labour-hour-rate method
  2. Direct labour-cost-rate method
  3. Machine-hour-rate method.