You are put in charge of a new, independent factory. The products you produce are cheap to produce but the profit margin is small. Maintaining low costs and maximum efficiency is key.
You are concerned that certain parts of the production line are producing excess waste and damaging profits.
Which type of cost centre would be most useful in this situation?
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A company has the following budget information for next year:
The budgeted profit for the year is
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RS operates a standard absorption costing system. The following data is available for the month of March.
The sales budget for the month of March was for 3,000 units to be sold giving sales revenue of $40,000.
The actual sales volume is
Which of the following may result in a favourable material price variance? (Select ALL that apply.)
During Period 8, 120kgs of material 'X' was purchased for a total cost of £1,920. This resulted in a materials price variance of £240 adverse.
What was the standard price per kg of Material 'X'?
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A company manufactures a single product, and relevant data is as follows:
Note. Overheads are assumed to be related to direct labor hours.
The actual results for the period were as follows:
What is the variable overhead efficiency variance?
An increase in the selling price per unit, will cause the point at which the line plotted on a profit/volume (PV) graph intersects the horizontal axis to:
The decision rule to use when determining the optimal production plan if there is a scarce resource is:
Which of the following statements is correct?
i. sector bodies use budgetary planning and control systems
ii. costing cannot be used by public sector bodies because they have no measurable output
iii. in public sector bodies tend to focus on cost management therefore they have no need for non-financial information
A company has three production departments X, Y and Z, and one service department.
The service department’s overhead has been apportioned to the production departments in the ratio 3:2:5. As a result of this apportionment, $2,070 was given to Department Y.
What is the amount of service department overhead that would have been apportioned to Department Z? Give your answer to the nearest dollar.
A company uses an integrated accounting system.
The accounting entries for the sale of goods on credit would bE.
Which one of the following is an example of operational management information?
Apex Plc has budgeted to sell 8,000 units of A in the year. Opening inventory of A is estimated at 1,000 units and the company plans to reduce inventory levels of all products by 15%.
What will be the production budget (in units) for the year?
A company operates an absorption costing system. Overheads are absorbed using a pre-determined absorption rate using labour hours.
Actual labour hours were 10% below budget for the period and overheads incurred were 10% above budget for the period. This would result in:
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The following forecast cash flows relate to a proposed investment in new delivery vehicles at a total cost of $75,000.
The internal rate of return (IRR) of the proposed investment is (to two decimal places)
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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.
Refer to the exhibit.
An income statement summary for a particular product shows the following:
In which of the following circumstances would it be appropriate to continue to produce the product?
Data for the latest period for a company which makes and sells a single product are as follows:
There were no budgeted or actual changes in inventories during the period.
The sales volume contribution variance for the period was:
A small airport’s management accountant has prepared the following management report on the performance of its four retail outlets.
Which retail outlet has the highest contribution per square metre?
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.)
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WS operates an integrated accounting system. Transactions relating to production overheads for the month of May were as follows:
Indirect Material costs were $15,000
Indirect Labour Costs were $45,000
Production overheads of $58,000 were incurred during the period.
Depreciation of factory machinery amounted to $32,000.
Overheads costs absorbed by production using a standard absorption rate was $164,000 for the period.
What are the correct entries to record the absorption of production overheads for the period?
The correct set of entries to record the absorption of production overheads for the period is:
Refer to the exhibit.
The budget for ORG for the month of September contained the following data:
During the month the actual number of units produced was 1,550. The management accounts showed a direct labour rate variance of $200 adverse and direct labour efficiency variance of $150 adverse.
The actual direct labour hours in the month was:
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The following information is available for a production process:
The cost per unit of good output is:
Give your answer to 2 decimal places.
A product sells for £10 per unit and has an annual break-even volume of 50,000 units. The annual fixed costs are £100,000.
The variable cost per unit is:
Give your answer to 2 decimal places.
Refer to the exhibit.
C Ltd manufactures three products, which require the same type of materials. The following contribution and profit per unit is available:
In a period in which labour hours are in short supply, which of the following options is the rank order of production?
A company is appraising two projects. Both projects are for five years. Details of the two projects are as follows.
Based on the above information, which of the following statements is correct?
In the process account, the accounting treatment of the value of the abnormal loss is:
Refer to the exhibit.
A company manufactures three components on the same machine, on which there is spare capacity. An external supplier has offered to supply all of the company's requirements of the components. Data for the components are as follows:
Which components should be purchased from the external supplier?
A product has a break-even point of 40,000 units and a margin of safety of 20%. The contribution per unit is £3.
What is the budgeted profit?
Feedforward control systems differ from feedback systems in that they _____________________.
In a manufacturing company which produces a range of products, the wages of a machine operator in the factory would be classified as a:
Refer to the exhibit.
The budgetary control report for the latest period shows the following. Variances in brackets are adverse.
Which THREE of the following statements can definitely be inferred from this control report?
Refer to the exhibit.
The following standard cost information relates to the production department of BE Ltd.
The actual data for the month of March was as follows:
What is the direct labour efficiency variance (to the nearest whole number)?
Refer to the exhibit.
Which ONE of the following can be represented by this graph?
Data for the latest period for a company which makes and sells a single product are as follows:
There were no budgeted or actual changes in inventories during the period.
The variable overhead expenditure variance for the period was:
The following data are available for a company that produces and sells a single product.
The company’s opening finished goods inventory was 2,500 units.
The fixed overhead absorption rate is $8.00 per unit.
The profit calculated using marginal costing is $16,000.
The profit calculated using absorption costing and valuing its inventory at standard cost is $22,400.
The company’s closing finished goods inventory is:
A company uses an integrated accounting system. The following data relate to the latest period.
At the end of the period, the entry in the production overhead control account in respect of under or over absorbed overheads will be:
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:
A company produces a single product for which the following cost data are available.
Analysis by the management accountant has shown that 100% of direct material cost and 50% of direct labour cost are variable costs. 50% of production overhead and 100% of selling and distribution overhead are variable costs.
What is the marginal cost per unit?
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TESTED 30 Apr 2024
