Question 1
25 Marks
Limehouse Ltd is a local leather products company that sells one type of leather bag. The
company is preparing for its upcoming year, ending 31 December 2023.
Limehouse plans to incur the following fixed costs:
Production overheads
N$720 000
Administration overheads
N$480 000
Over the past 2 years, Limehouse Ltd incurred the following selling overheads:
For the year ending 31 December 2022: N$350 000 for 10 000 units sold.
For the year ending 31 December 2021: N$320 000 for 8 500 units sold.
The planned selling price and variable cost per leather bag is as follows:
Selling price
N$200.00
Variable Costs
Direct Materials - 8 meters N$40.00
Direct Labour - 6 Hours
N$36.00
Production overheads
N$14.00
Limehouse has a profit objective of N$540 000 for the forthcoming year. A sales forecast
revealed high sales in the months of March, June, September, and November; with expected
sales of 10% of the total sales in each of these months. The remainder of the planned sales
quantity is expected to be achieved equally in the other eight months of the year.
Each month's production is planned as follows:
• 40% of each month's sales are produced in the month before sale.
• 60% of each month's sale are produced in the month of sale.
Direct Materials purchases are planned as follows:
• 50% of each month's direct materials requirements are purchased in the month before
the materials are required.
• 50% of the remaining direct materials requirement requirements are purchased in the
month the materials are required.
The opening inventory levels of finished goods and direct materials for the budgeted year
should be assumed to be consistent with the above policies.
All sales and purchases transactions are done on credit. With regards to credit policies,
Limehouse Ltd collects 70% of sales in the month of sale and 30% in the month of after sale.
50% of the payments due to accounts payables are made in the month following purchases,
while the remaining 50% is paid 2 months after purchases.
The company expects to collect N$50,000 from receivables and pay N$75,000 to accounts
payables in the first month of the year which relate to the activities of the previous year.
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