CIMA Exam CIMAPRO19-P02-1 Topic 3 Question 30 Discussion

The performance report for the production manager of a company for the last month included the following.

1,000 direct labor hours were worked at a basic rate of pay of $10 per hour. 200 of these hours were worked during overtime for which a 30% overtime premium was paid. 80 of these overtime hours were to fulfill a customer order that had originally been planned for manufacture next month. The sales manager had agreed to bring forward the delivery of this order at the request of the customer. The remaining overtime hours were due to unexpected inefficiency of the workforce; this has been traced to poor supervision by a junior manager.

Material costs included the following:

$5,300 of material