Manufacturing Account (Cambridge (CIE) IGCSE Accounting)

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Manufacturing Account

What is the total cost of production?

  • The total cost of production is the total of the direct costs and the indirect costs

  • This is adjusted due to the work in progress not being finished

    • Add the value of the work in progress from the beginning of the year

    • Subtract the value of the work in progress from the end of the year

      • This is similar to dealing with inventory when calculating the net purchases for a trading business

  • Cost of production

    • = Direct materials

    • + Direct labour

    • + Direct expenses

    • + Factory overheads

    • + Opening work in progress

    • - Closing work in progress

Examiner Tips and Tricks

A business might use a factory and an office. Only the factory expenses are included in the cost of production.

How do I complete a manufacturing account?

  • STEP 1
    Calculate the cost of materials consumed

    • Start with the opening inventory of raw material

    • Add the purchases of raw materials

      • Subtract purchases returns

    • Add carriage inwards

    • Subtract the closing inventory of raw materials

  • STEP 2
    Calculate the prime cost

    • Start with the cost of materials consumed

    • Add direct labour

    • Add direct expenses

  • STEP 3
    Calculate the cost of factory overheads

    • Add together any costs linked to the factory but not the production

      • The production costs should be included in the prime cost

  • STEP 4
    Add the prime cost and the factory overhead

  • STEP 5
    Adjust for the work in progress to calculate the cost of production

    • Add the opening balance for the work in progress to the current total cost

    • Subtract the closing balance for the work in progress

    • This final value is the cost of production

Layout of a manufacturing account
Layout of a manufacturing account

Examiner Tips and Tricks

Remember the finished goods do not appear on the manufacturing account. They appear on the income statement.

Worked Example

Comfy Chairs is a manufacturer of specialist garden chairs. The following information is available from the business for the year ended 31 August 31 2023.

$

Inventory at 1 September 2022

     Raw materials

     Work in progress

     Finished goods

     

45 000

6 000

51 000

Inventory at 31 August 2023

     Raw materials

     Work in progress

     Finished goods

     

53 750

8 000

42 000

Purchases of raw materials

160 000

Factory rent

24 000

Royalties

3 440

Depreciation of factory equipment

6 400

Factory heating and lighting

5 500

Wages of factory operatives

16 000

Wages of factory supervisor

8 000

Factory insurance

4 220

Prepare the manufacturing account of Comfy Chairs for the year ended 31 August 2023.

Answer

  • Identify:

    • The direct materials

      • Raw materials and purchases

    • The direct labour

      • Wages of factory operatives

    • The direct expenses

      • Royalties

  • Ignore the inventory of finished goods

  • The other costs are the factory overheads

Prepare the account in the required format.

Comfy Chairs

Manufacturing Account for the year ended 31 August 2023 

Cost of material consumed

Opening inventory of raw materials

45 000

Purchases of raw materials

160 000

205 000

Less: Closing inventory of raw material

53 750

151 250

Direct wages - factory operatives

16 000

Direct expenses - royalties

3 440

Prime cost

170 690

Factory overheads

Factory rent

24 000

Factory insurance

4 220

Wages - supervisor

8 000

Factory heating and lighting

5 500

Depreciation of factory equipment

6 400

48 120

218 810

Add: Opening work in progress

6 000

224 810

Less: Closing work in progress

8 000

Cost of production

216 810

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