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A Cape Town - based manufacturing firm, CGH Manufacturing Enterprises ( CGHME ) , has three production departments ( A , B and C )

A Cape Town-based manufacturing firm, CGH Manufacturing Enterprises (CGHME), has three production departments (A, B and C) and the two service departments (X and Y). As part of the budgeting process, a senior cost accountant employed by CGHME has gathered the following annual overhead costs:
R
Indirect materials:
Production department A 250000
Production department B 402500
Production department C 52500
Service department X 10000
Service department Y 50000
Indirect labour:
Production department A 500000
Production department B 500000
Production department C 750000
Service department X 550000
Service department Y 740000
Heating and lighting 350000
Property tax 400000
Insurance of machinery 180000
Depreciation of machinery 960000
Insurance of buildings 145000
Salaries of works management 4600000
The following information is also available:
Carrying value of machinery, R Floor area occupied (m2) Number of employees Machine hours
Production department A 400000050001501000000
Production department B 25000002500100800000
Production department C 5000007500150850000
Service department X 250000750050
Service department Y 250000250050
750000025000500
As an accounting intern in the office of the senior cost accountant, you have been asked to prepare an overhead allocation statement (using traditional costing). You have been asked to use the repeated distribution method to prepare the secondary allocation of the overheads of the two service departments (X and Y) to the three production departments (A, B and C) according to the following percentages:
Secondary allocation: A B C X Y
Percentage of service department X to 204030-10
Percentage of service department Y to 40202020-
The three production departments (A, B and C) absorb overheads on machine hour basis.
REQUIRED:
1.1. Complete the primary allocation statement below.
Basis Total PD A PD B PD C SD X SD Y
Primary allocations:
Indirect materials Given 765000250000402500525001000050000
Indirect labour Given 3040000500000500000750000550000740000
Heating and lighting Floor Area 350000??105000105000?
Property tax
Floor Area
400000
80000
40000
?
?
?
Insurance of machinery Mach. value 180000?600001200060006000
Dep. of machinery
Mach. value
960000
512000
?
?
32000
32000
Insurance of buildings
Floor Area
145000
?
?
43500
43500
14500
Salaries of works
management No. of
employ
4600000
1380000
?
?
?
460000
Total primary allocations 1044000029170002292000252700013265001377500
1.2. Complete the secondary allocation statement below (where applicable, round of figures to two decimal places).
Production departments Service departments
A B C X Y
Total primary allocation, R 29170002292000252700013265001377500
Service department X ?????
Service department Y ?????
Service department X ?????
Service department Y ?????
Service department X ?????
Service department Y ?????
Service department X ?????
Service department Y ?????
Service department X ?????
Service department Y ?????
Total allocated overhead ???--
Calculate the predetermined overhead absorption rates for the three production departments (A, B and C) of CGH Manufacturing Enterprises for the forthcoming quarter (round off answers to two decimal places).

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