Case Study • Select a manufacturing organisation • Identify the activities • Know the arrangement / hierarchy • Trace the departmentalisation • Know the cost objects
Case study
Company Profile • • • •
Bajaj Auto Limited Type Founded Headquarters
Public 1945 Pune, India
• Key people – Rahul Bajaj (Chairman), – Rajiv Bajaj (Managing Director)
• Revenue ▲ Rs. 81.063 billion (2005) or USD 1.32 billion • Net income billion
▲ Rs. 11.016
• Employees 07)
10,250 (2006-
Organizational Hierarchy Board of
directors Managing director
Two wheelar bss unit
Finance
Commercial vechile unit
International bss unit
MIS
HR
Engineering & R&D
commerce
Cost & cost objectives • Cost is a resource sacrificed or forgone to achieve a specific objective. • A cost object is anything for which a separate measurement of costs is desired.
Overheads Overheads are all expenses other than direct expenses. Classification of overheads:functional classification element wise classification Behaviourwise classification
Functional classification • • • •
Factory overheads Administration overhead Selling overhead Distribution overhead
Elementwise classification • Indirect material • Indirect labor • Indirect expenses
Behaviourwise classification • Fixed overhead • Variable overhead • Semi variable overhead
Basis of apportionment • • • • •
Area occupied No. of employees Direct wages Capital values Direct labour hours or machine hours.
Methods of Re-Apportionment • • • •
Direct distribution method. Step ladder method. Simultaneous equation method. Repeated distribution method.
Primary Distribution
secondary Distribution