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A company operates a batch costing system.
Production overhead costs are absorbed into the cost of batches using a direct labour hour rate. Other overhead costs are absorbed at a rate of 20% of total production cost. The company adds a mark-up of 10% to total cost in order to derive its selling prices.
Budgeted production overheads for the period are $44,000 and the budgeted level of activity is 8,800 direct labour hours.
The following data are available for batch number 309:
The required selling price per unit (to two decimal places) is:
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Xell Ltd uses a standard costing system and therefore values all inventory at standard cost. During period 3 the price paid for material 'A' was £6 per kg less than the standard price.
The following information for material 'A' relates to period 3:
What was the material price variance for period 3?
In an integrated cost and financial accounting system, the accounting entries for the payment of net wages to indirect production workers would be:
The following costs are incurred by a company which owns a five star hotel. Which THREE of the items would normally be classified as variable costs?
Based upon extensive historical evidence, a company’s daily sales volume is known to be normally distributed with a mean of 1,728 units and a standard deviation of 273 units.
What is the probability that, on any one day, the sales volume will be at least 1,300 units?
In order for the information in a management accounting report to be authoritative its contents must be:
Which of the following would NOT require taking into account the time value of money?
The staffing policy for a supermarket is to have one cashier station open for every forecasted 20 customers per hour. Cashiers are hired by the hour as and when required, and do not perform any other duties.
The cost of the cashiers in relation to the number of customers would be classified as which type of cost?
A company uses full cost pricing. The unit costs for product Z are given below.
What price per unit should be charged in order to achieve a profit margin of 20%?
Give your answer to the nearest cent.
In a company that manufactures many different products on the same production line, which TWO of the following would NOT be classified as indirect production costs? (Choose two.)
A company is considering investing $57,000 in a machine that will last for five years, after which time it will have no value. The machine will generate additional revenue of $190,000 each year. Annual running costs, including depreciation of $11,400 will amount to $168,400.
Assuming that all cash flows occur evenly, the payback period of the investment in the machine is closest to:
The year-to-date results at the end of month 9 included sales revenue of $3,600,000 and variable costs of $2,100,000.
During month 10, sales revenue was $450,000 and variable costs were $270,000.
What year-to-date contribution to sales ratio (C/S ratio) would be reported at the end of month 10?
The following is an extract from a budgetary control report for the latest period:
The budget variance for prime cost is:
A company operates an integrated standard cost accounting system. The standard price of raw material A is $20 per litre. At the start of period 1, the inventory of 500 litres of raw material A was valued at $20 per litre. During period 1, 100 litres of raw material A were purchased at an actual price of $21 per litre. During period 2, 550 litres of raw material A were issued to Job 789.
In respect of the above events, which TWO of the following statements are correct? (Choose two.)
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of useful operational level information?
According to CIMA’s Code of Ethics, CIMA members should not allow bias, conflict of interest of the influence of other people to override their professional judgement.
This is an example of:
A management accountant has forecast the following cash inflows from four potential projects.
All four projects require the same initial investment and will last for four years. They all result in a positive net present value but only one of the projects can be undertaken.
Which project should be selected?
The forecast costs per unit for a new product are as follows:
The company uses marginal cost plus pricing and all products are required to achieve a 40% margin.
What would be the selling price per unit?
A company that uses standard costing wishes to reconcile the difference between the profit for a period calculated using absorption costing with that calculated using marginal costing.
Which TWO of the following will NOT help with this reconciliation? (Choose two.)
The following data relate to the latest period.
A statement is to be prepared that reconciles the difference between the flexible budget profit and the actual profit.
Which TWO of the following will appear on this statement? (Choose two.)
A company manufactures three products using the same direct labour which will be in short supply next month. No inventories are held. Data for the three products are as follows:
The fixed costs are all committed costs and cannot now be altered for the next month.
Place the labels against the correct product to indicate the order of priority for manufacture that will maximise the profit for the next month.
A company operates a full cost system of pricing. Production overheads are absorbed using a pre-determined absorption rate of £3.50 per machine hour. The direct production cost of product A is £15 per unit and it utilises 6 machine hours per unit. The mark-up for non-production costs is 10% of total production cost. The company applies a 25% mark-up on total cost for all products.
The required selling price for Product A, to two decimal places, is:
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The budget for product Sentra for the month of August is given below:
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A company operates an absorption costing system. The management accounts show that fixed production overheads were over-absorbed in the period.
Which FOUR combinations could possibly have resulted in this situation?
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DS is manufacturing company that uses an integrated accounting system. The following payroll data is available for the month of August:
The Employers' National Insurance for the period was $13,790. An analysis of the wages is as follows:
Which of the following factors affect the budgeted cash flow:
(a) Funds from the issue of share capital
(b) Bank Interest on a long term loan
(c) Depreciation on fixed assets
(d) Bad debt write off
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Data for October's budget for product Quest for the month of October are given below:
Each unit of Quest requires 6kg of raw materials. Strict quality control procedures are applied to the manufacturing process and normal rejection levels are 5% of finished units.
The raw materials purchases budget for the month of October is:
Which one of the following is an example of operational management information?
In an integrated cost and financial accounting system, the accounting entries for the cost of production units completed in the period would be:
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Xey Ltd. has the following budgeted information for product T4 in July:
The actual results for July were as follows:
What is the total sales margin variance?
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PJ Ltd has forecast that the relationship between total overheads and machine hours will be as follows:
If the budget is to be based on 4,000 machine hours, the variable overhead absorption rate will be:
*per machine hour.
Give your answer to 2 decimal places.
Each finished carton of product P contains 15 litres of liquid L. During the production process there is an unavoidable loss of 20% of the liquid input. The standard price of liquid L is $2 per litre.
The standard ingredient cost for liquid L shown on the standard cost card for one carton of product P will be
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Patchit Limited operates a job costing system. They have been asked to quote for a rush job that will require to be done in overtime hours. It is estimated that the job will incur the following costs:
Production overheads are absorbed on a direct labour hour basis. Budgeted direct labour hours for the year were 50,000 and budgeted direct labour cost was $300,000.
If production overheads had been based on a percentage of direct labour cost, the revised production costs for the job would be:
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The budgeted contribution for last month was $53,600. The variances reported were as follows:
The actual contribution for last month was:
JB has fixed costs of $120,000 per annum. It manufactures a single product which it sells for $12 per unit. It has a profit/volume ratio of 60%.
JB’s break-even point is
A company hires a delivery vehicle for $200 per day plus $2 per kilometre travelled. The total hire cost would be described as:
The Chartered Institute of Management Accounting's definition of management accounting outlines four responsibilities of the accountant in terms of the value for the stakeholders. The management accountant should
aim to have which of the following effects according to CIMA?
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A departmental budgetary control report for the latest period includes the following information.
The budgeted variable production cost per unit is
RJD Ltd is preparing the production cost budget for the forthcoming year and has found that there is a linear relationship between production volume and production costs.
They have found that a production volume of 1,600 units corresponds to production costs of £40000 and that a production volume of 3,200 units corresponds to production costs of £48,000.
What would be the production costs for a production volume of 4,000 units?
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A company requires 2,000 units each of components X, Y and Z during the next period. All three components are made on the same machine which has a capacity of 26,000 hours for next period. No inventories are held.
Data for the three components are as follows:
In order to minimize cost, how many units of component X should be purchased from the external supplier?
The company Andrew works for currently uses traditional absorption costing. He needs to convince his manager that the company should be using activity based costing instead.
Andrew has compiled this list of advantages:
(1)ABC will allow us to make better pricing decisions
(2)ABC will give us tighter control over costs as we will be able to pinpoint inefficiencies
(3)ABC will help improve our product mix by highlighting the best combination of materials
(4)ABC is suitable for our business as we only produce one product
Which statement or statements are INCORRECT?
A company uses an integrated accounting system.
The accounting entries for depreciation of machinery used for production would be.
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A company has the following budget information for next year:
The budgeted profit for the year is
CL produces a household detergent in a single process. Information for this process for last month is as follows:
(a) Materials input – 11,000 Litres at £2.00 per litre.
(b) Conversion costs - £23,000
(c) Output during the month – 8,000 litres.
(d) There were 2,000 units of closing work in progress which was complete as to materials and 35% complete as to conversion.
(e) Normal loss for the month was 5% of input and all losses have a scrap value of 50p per litre.
(f) There is no opening work in progress.
What was the value of normal loss during the month? Give your answer to one decimal place.
CL produces a household detergent in a single process. Information for this process for last month is as follows:
(a) Materials input - 11,000 Litres at £2.00 per litre.
(b) Conversion costs - £23,000
(c) Output during the month - 8,000 litres.
(d) There were 2,000 units of closing work in progress which was complete as to materials and 35% complete as to conversion.
(e) Normal loss for the month was 5% of input and all losses have a scrap value of 50p per litre.
(f) There is no opening work in progress.
The value of finished output during the month (to the nearest £) was:
A company manufactures laptop computers. Which of the following would be classified as direct labor?
Fast Manufacturers PLC have reconsidered their new project and the initial investment required of £1,000,000 is now 25% less than the original conception. The project will remain will have a three year life span and
have no scrap value.
However, this new conception has operating costs of £150,000 in year 1, and increasing by 5% due to inflation the following years. The gross revenue will also be higher across the board. The new project conception is
forecasting a gross revenue of £525,000 in year 1 and again increasing with inflation 5% for years 2 and 3.
If the cost of capital has remained at 14%, should Fast Manufacturers PLC go ahead with the revised project?
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A company issued its production budget based on an anticipated output of 800 units. Actual output was 1000 units. The details of the costs are shown below:
The budget volume variance was: