A company operates an activity based costing (ABC) system to attribute its overhead costs to cost objects. In its budget for the year - ending 31st August, 2018. The company expected to place a total of 2000 purchase orders at a total cost of ?1,00,000. This activity and its related costs were budgeted to occur at a constant rate throughout the budget year which is divided into 13 four week periods. During the four week period ended 30th June 2017, a total of 200 purchase orders were placed at a cost of ?9,000. The over recovery of these costs for the four week period was

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A company operates an activity based costing (ABC) system to attribute its overhead costs to cost objects. In its budget for the year - ending 31st August, 2018. The company expected to place a total of 2000 purchase orders at a total cost of ?1,00,000. This activity and its related costs were budgeted to occur at a constant rate throughout the budget year which is divided into 13 four week periods. During the four week period ended 30th June 2017, a total of 200 purchase orders were placed at a cost of ?9,000. The over recovery of these costs for the four week period was