1. Khorab Ltd manufactures chocolate candy. The company's management accounts are drawn up on a monthly basis...

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Khorab Ltd manufactures chocolate candy. The company'smanagement accounts are drawn up on a monthly basis as per thefinancial manager's (FM) recommendation. Ms Nghitewa, who is thecompany;s FM provided the following information in respect ofJanuary 2019:

$

Purchases(direct and indirect material) 460 000

Office salaries 45 000

freight on sale 1 2 000

Rent 30 000

Freight on purchases 8 000

Property rates and taxes 55 000

Insurance 20 000

Depreciation 55 000

Balances on 1 January 2019:

Raw material 35 000

Work-in-progress 106 000

Finished goods ( 7000 kg) 136 500

Balances on 31 January 2019:

Raw materials 42 000

Work-in-progress 90 000

Finished goods (2000 kg) 40 400

Additional information

1. The payroll of the factory workers for January 20019 is asfollows:

Overtime

Deductions

Normal

Basic

Premium

leave payment

Gross wages

Pension

PAYE

Medical

Manufacturing

200 000

80 000

40 000

7 000

327 000

16 000

25 000

8 000

Supervisors

40 000

10 000

5 0000

-

55 000

3 000

4 700

1 500  

Cleaners

9 000

2 0000

1 000

-

   12 000

1 000

1 500

500

Manufacturing staff are paid at $ 40 per hour. Overtime is paidat 1.5 times the normal rate. Khorab Ltd contributes 150% for allemployees to the pension fund and in equal to the medical fund.Leave is provided for at $ 12 000 per month.

2. The manufacturing overhead is allocated on the basis ofdirect labour hours. Budgeted manufacturing overhead amounted to $252 000 while budgeted direct labour hours amounted to 6 000 forthe month under review.

3. The rental expenses include rent for both the factory andadministration buildings. The factory;s rent expenses is double therental of the administrative buildings.

4. All completed chocolates sweets are painted differentcolours. The paints is only indirect materials used in themanufacturing process. The factory's records show that 500 litresof paint were used during the month. The cost of the paint is $ 82per litre.

5. Property rates and taxes are only charged on the factorypremises.

6. The following breakdown of the insurance was obtained fromthe insurance schedule:

Factory 40%

Office building 30%

Shop 30%

7. Depreciation expense consists of the following:

Factory equipment $ 34 000

Office equipment $ 16 000

Shop equipment $ 5 000

8. The company produced 50 000 kg of chocolate candy in January2019( probably you meant January). The current selling price ofchocolate is $ 46 per kg.

Required:

Prepare a schedule of cost of goods sold manufacturedand sold for Khorab Ltd for January 2019. Khorab Ltd closes off allover-or under -allocated manufacturing overhead to cost of goodssold at the end of each month.

  

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