P1 Exam Dumps - Management Accounting
A company is forecasting sales volume using time series analysis. The following equation has been derived from past data and is considered to be a reliable predictor of future sales volume:
y = 20,000+80x
Where y is the total sales units each quarter and x is the time period (the first quarter of year 1 is time period 1).
The following set of seasonal variations for each quarter has been calculated using the additive model.
What is the forecast sales units for the second quarter of year 3?
A museum charges a reduced entrance fee for students in full-time education. The budgeted cost per customer is the same regardless of the entrance fee paid.
4,000 customers were budgeted to visit the museum during period 6, with 25% of customers paying the reduced fee.
3,000 customers visited the museum during period 6 and 1,000 of these paid the reduced entrance fee. Costs were as budgeted but the actual full-priced entrance fee was $2 higher than budgeted.
Which of the following statements is true?
A company manufactures a range of products. It is deciding whether to make one of its products internally or to buy the product partially completed from an external source and complete the manufacture in-house. The table below gives details of the variable costs of the two alternatives. Fixed production costs will remain the same under both alternative.
What is the sensitivity of the decision to a change in the external purchase price?
Give your answer as a whole percentage.
Product G has the following sales information:
If moving averages of annual sales over 3-year periods are calculated, what is the moving average at Year 3?
TP makes wedding cakes that are sold to specialist retail outlets which decorate the cakes according to the customers’ specific requirements. The standard cost per unit of its most popular cake is as follows:
The general market prices at the time of purchase for Ingredient A and Ingredient B were $23 per kg and $20 per kg respectively. TP operates a JIT purchasing system for ingredients and a JIT production system; therefore, there was no inventory during the period.
Discuss the usefulness of the planning and operational variances calculated for TP’s management.
Select ALL the TRUE statements.
QR uses an activity based budgeting (ABB) system to budget product costs. It manufactures two products, product Q and product R. The budget details for these two products for the forthcoming period are as follows:
The total budgeted cost of setting up the machines is $74,400.
Select TWO potential benefits of using an activity based budgeting system.
TP makes wedding cakes that are sold to specialist retail outlets which decorate the cakes according to the customers’ specific requirements. The standard cost per unit of its most popular cake is as follows:
The general market prices at the time of purchase for Ingredient A and Ingredient B were $23 per kg and $20 per kg respectively. TP operates a JIT purchasing system for ingredients and a JIT production system; therefore, there was no inventory during the period.
What was the material price planning variance for ingredient B?
An ice cream manufacturer experiences regular fluctuations in sales.
Which component in a time series do these fluctuations represent?
In a manufacturing company, breakeven occurs at which TWO of the following?
A company's product has the following standard selling price, variable costs and contribution:
Budgeted sales and production was 20,000 units and actual was 19,500 units.
Due to a market downturn the production and sales budget should have been 10% lower.
What is the operational sales volume contribution variance?
Two products being produced by a company require the same material which is limited to 2,600 kgs.
What is the optimal production plan?
Budgeted sales and production for Product X for this period are 12,000 units.
The standard cost and selling price for a single unit of the product are:
The fixed production overhead expenditure variance is:
A manufacturing company has more units of finished goods inventory at the end of a period than at the beginning of the period.
Which of the following statements is true?
A manufacturing company has a capacity of 10,000 units. The flexed production cost budget of the company is as follows:
All costs are either fixed, variable or semi-variable.
What is the budgeted total production cost if the company operates at 85% capacity?
A company reports planning and operational variances to its managers. The following data are available concerning the price of direct material M in the last period. Material M is the only material used by the company. The company operates a just-in-time (JIT) purchasing system.
Which TWO of the following statements about last period are definitely correct based on this information?
The direct material price operational variance was adverse.
A company operates a customer complaints department.
How will the cost of the customer complaints department be classified in a system focussed on quality related costs?
A company sells and services photocopying machines. Its sales department sells the machines and consumables, including ink and paper, and its service department provides an after sales service to its customers. The after sales service includes planned maintenance of the machine and repairs in the event of a machine breakdown. Service department customers are charged an amount per copy that differs depending on the size of the machine.
The company’s existing costing system uses a single overhead rate, based on total sales revenue from copy charges, to charge the cost of the Service Department’s support activities to each size of machine. The Service Manager has suggested that the copy charge should more accurately reflect the costs involved. The company’s accountant has decided to implement an activity-based costing system and has obtained the following information about the support activities of the service department:
Calculate the annual profit per machine for each of the three sizes of machine using activity-based costing.
RT produces two products from different quantities of the same resources using a just-in-time (JIT) production system. The selling price and resource requirements of each of the products are shown below:Â
Market research shows that the maximum demand for products R and T during June 2010 is 500 units and 800 units respectively. This does not include an order that RT has agreed with a commercial customer for the supply of 250 units of R and 350 units of T at selling prices of $100 and $135 per unit respectively. Although the customer will accept part of the order, failure by RT to deliver the order in full by the end of June will cause RT to incur a $10,000 financial penalty. At a recent meeting of the purchasing and production managers to discuss the production plans of RT for June, the following resource restrictions for June were identified: Direct labour hours 7,500 hoursÂ
Material A 8,500 kgs
Material B 3,000 litres
Machine hours 7,500 hours
Assuming that RT completes the order with the commercial customer, prepare calculations to show, from a financial perspective, the optimum production plan for June 2010 and the contribution that would result from adopting this plan.Â
The contribution per unit for R and T will be...?
A company manufactures two products and has two production constraints.
When the graphical approach to linear programming is used, the axes of the graph will show:
A company produces and sells two products, product A and product B.
What are the total fixed costs when the weighted average contribution per unit is $5 and the breakeven points for product A and product B are 10,000 units and 5,000 units respectively?
Give your answer as a whole number (in 000's).
Information about a company's only two products is as follows:
The revenue from the products must be in the constant mix of 2U:3V. Budgeted monthly sales revenue is $110,000.
Fixed costs are $23,095 each month.
To the nearest $10, what is the budgeted monthly margin of safety in terms of sales revenue?
Traditional absorption costing is more suitable than activity-based costing when:
Which of the following are examples of feedforward control?
Select ALL that apply.
A company produces three products D, E and F. The statement below shows the selling price and product costs per unit for each product, based on a traditional absorption costing system.
Each of the products is produced using Process A which has a maximum capacity of 2,500 hours per period.
If a traditional contribution approach is used, the ranking of products, in order of priority, for the profit maximizing product mix will be:
Company XPP sells a perishable product that has to be produced each day in anticipation of the following day's sales.
Any product remaining unsold at the end of the day following production is wasted.
The payoff table below shows the daily profit or loss depending on the amounts produced and sold.
A new ordering system is being discussed with customers.
The new system would require customers to order in advance to enable production each day of the following day's sales quantity, thus eliminating waste.
What is the expected increase in average daily profit if the new system is accepted by customers?
Give your answer as a whole number.
Place the correct label against each item to categorise the cost of the item within the quality cost framework.
A snowboard manufacturer is considering investing in technology that will give a good indication of how heavy snowfall will be in the future. The predictions tend to be reasonably accurate.
The current budgeted profit for the year is £2,560,000 but if they invest in this technology and it works, the expected profit will be £2,640,000. The manufacturer is willing to invest a maximum of £40,000 into the venture.
What is the expected profit if the investment is NOT made?
Select the benefits to a company of using sensitivity analysis in investment appraisal.
(Select all the true statements.)
The following statements relate to the advantage(s) that linear regression has over the high-low method in the analysis of cost behaviour:
Which statement(s) is/are true?
Which of the following would help to explain a favourable material price variance?
Information about a company's two products is as follows:
The products are currently sold in equal quantities.
Monthly fixed costs are $360,000.
What is the monthly breakeven sales revenue assuming a sales quantity mix of 50/50?
Give your answer to the nearest $.
Where sales volume is the principal budget factor, which of the following is the correct order in which budgets have to be prepared?
A manager has to decide between four mutually exclusive projects, A, B, C and D:
Using the above information, which Project would a risk seeking manager choose?
XY manufactures a range of products and uses an activity based costing system.
Budgeted production of Product B is 7,500 units.
Overheads have been identified by activity and related to appropriate cost drivers.
Product B is produced in batches of 250 units. Machines have to be reset after every batch and quality inspections are carried out on every third batch.
What is the total overhead cost per unit of Product B?
Give your answer to two decimal places.