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Cost jobs for a furniture business
Level
4
Credits
12
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: prepare information to
cost furniture jobs in a furniture business; cost incidentals, and labour times
used for furniture jobs; cost furniture subcontractors for furniture jobs;
establish margins for furniture jobs; and prepare job cost proposals for
furniture jobs.
Subfield
Furniture
Domain
Furniture Operations
Status
Registered
Status date
19 June 2009
Date version published
19 June 2009
Planned review date
31 December 2014
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and
industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Competenz
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0173
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1
This unit standard must be assessed against on-job.
2
Evidence is required for three furniture manufacturing jobs.
3
Definitions
Bill of materials contains information that a furniture business uses to invoice
customers. At a minimum, it would list the quantities of materials required for the job,
the cost of those materials per the metric they are measured, in and the total cost of
materials.
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Worksite policies and procedures refer to documented policies and to documented or
other directions provided to staff. These may include, but are not limited to, ways of
managing health and safety, environmental considerations, quality, and production,
and must conform to legislation. Examples include standard operating procedures,
company health and safety plans, on-site briefings, and supervisor’s instructions.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Prepare information to cost furniture jobs in a furniture business.
Performance criteria
1.1
Furniture manufacturing process steps for a selected job are put into a flow
chart in accordance with worksite policies and procedures.
1.2
Labour times for the process steps charted in performance criterion 1.1 are
allocated in accordance with worksite policies and procedures.
1.3
Customer quantity and quality requirements are clarified with the customer in
accordance with worksite policies and procedures.
1.4
The bill of materials is prepared in accordance with worksite policies and
procedures.
Element 2
Cost incidentals and labour times used for furniture jobs.
Performance criteria
2.1
Incidentals required for furniture jobs are documented and cost is allocated in
accordance with worksite policies and procedures.
2.2
Materials wastage is calculated from the quantities in the bill of materials and
added to the total cost of materials in accordance with worksite policies and
procedures.
2.3
Estimated labour times for the selected job are costed in accordance with
worksite policies and procedures.
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Element 3
Cost furniture subcontractors for furniture jobs.
Range
minimum of three quotations must be obtained.
Performance criteria
3.1
Quotations for work to be subcontracted are obtained in accordance with
worksite policies and procedures.
Range
3.2
subcontracted work may include but is not limited to – engineering,
glass, finish, external components.
Quotations obtained for performance criterion 3.1 are evaluated and a
recommendation is made in accordance with worksite policies and procedures.
Range
evaluation criteria may include – timeframes, cost, quality.
Element 4
Establish margins for furniture jobs.
Performance criteria
4.1
Required overhead margin is calculated in accordance with worksite policies
and procedures.
4.2
Desired profit margin is calculated in accordance with worksite policies and
procedures.
Element 5
Prepare job cost proposals for furniture jobs.
Performance criteria
5.1
Job cost proposals are prepared in accordance with worksite policies and
procedures.
Range
must include details on – materials, labour, overheads, margins,
subcontracted activities.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated
authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against
unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register
credits from assessment against unit standards.
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Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations
wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for
tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Competenz at info@competenz.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes
to the content of this unit standard.
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