What do you mean by direct labour?

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Q. What do you mean by direct labour?

ChseodishaCHSE Odisha Plus Two (Class 12) Commerce Board 2020Subjective· 2mImportance★★★★★est

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Direct labour works directly on the product and its cost is traceable to the job/unit.

Direct labour (or productive labour) consists of workers who are directly engaged in the conversion of raw materials into finished goods - for example a machine operator, a weaver in a textile mill, or an assembly-line worker. Its two key features are:

It is directly involved in production of a specific product or job.
Its cost can be conveniently identified with and charged to that product, job or process as a direct cost. …

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(xi) The workers who take materials from the factory and make finished goods at their own premises are known as ______ .
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Fill in: Out-workers.

Out-workers are workers who are given raw materials by the factory and who make the finished goods at their own homes/premises rather than inside the factory.

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$Q. Wages of a carpenter in furniture manufacturing shop, is :$
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A carpenter directly converts wood into furniture, so his pay is direct wages — option (a).

In +2 Class-12 Cost Accounting (CHSE Odisha, NCERT/CBSE-aligned), direct wages (direct labour cost) are paid to workers who are directly engaged in manufacturing the product and whose work can be identified with it. A carpenter in a furniture-making shop i …

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Temporary workers taken on to meet extra load, not on the permanent payroll, are casual workers — option (a).

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$Q. Fill in the blank: ________ labour cost is a part of production overhead.$
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The missing word is 'Indirect'.

Labour cost is split into direct labour (traceable to a job/unit) and indirect labour (not traceable). Indirect labour - foremen, cleaners, maintenance workers, timekeepers - cannot be charged to a single unit, so its cost is collected as **indirect lab …

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