Menai Ltd

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Menai Ltd. manufactures a number of different products and has recently employed Sally Rushton as its management accountant. Sally is currently looking at the various products and processes within Menai Ltd. to increase profitability, as a measure to try to avoid redundancies. Sally has identified 4 areas that she would like to look at first and she has asked you to provide her with the following information.

Menai Ltd. manufacture the Picola which it sells for £50 a unit. The direct material cost is £15 per unit. Other factory costs are £50,000 each month. The bottleneck factor of the production is the assembly of the unit, which is a labour-intensive process. There are 12,500 labour hours available in assembly each month. Each unit of the Picola takes 4 hours to assemble.

Calculate the Picola's budgeted rate per factory hour and through put ratio for the month