CIMA P1 - Management Accounting Question Tutorial Sample Questions:

1. A company is preparing its annual budget and is estimating the number of units of Product A that it will sell in each quarter of year 2. Past experience has shown that the trend for sales of the product is represented by the following relationship:
y = a + bx where
y = number of sales units in the quarter a = 10,000 units b = 3,000 units x = the quarter number where 1 = quarter 1 of year 1 Actual sales of Product A in Year 1 were affected by seasonal variations and were as follows:
Quarter 1:14,000 units Quarter2: 18,000 units Quarter 3: 18,000 units Quarter 4: 20,000 units Calculate the expected sales of Product A (in units) for each quarter of year 2, after adjusting for seasonal variations using the additive model.

A) The expected sales for year 2 Quarter 4 was 32000 units
B) The expected sales for year 2 Quarter 4 was 32700 units
C) The expected sales for year 2 Quarter 4 was 40000 units
D) The expected sales for year 2 Quarter 4 was 33000 units

2. A marketing manager is trying to decide which of four potential selling prices to charge for a new product. The state of the economy is uncertain and may show signs of recession, growth or boom. The manager has prepared a regret matrix showing the regret for each of the possible outcomes depending on the decision made.

If the manager applies the minimax regret criterion to make decisions, which selling price would be chosen?

A) $45
B) $40
C) $50
D) $55

3. A medium-sized manufacturing company, which operates in the electronics industry, has employed a firm of consultants to carry out a review of the company's planning and control systems. The company presently uses a traditional incremental budgeting system and the inventory management system is based on economic order quantities (EOQ) and reorder levels. The company's normal production patterns have changed significantly over the previous few years as a result of increasing demand for customized products. This has resulted in shorter production runs and difficulties with production and resource planning.
The consultants have recommended the implementation of activity based budgeting and a manufacturing resource planning system to improve planning and resource management.
Select ALL the benefits for the company that could occur following the introduction of an activity based budgeting system.

A) Under an activity based budgeting system, resource allocation is linked to the strategic plan is prepared after considering alternative strategies. This approach ensures that new activities that are required to meet the company's strategic objectives are included in the budget.
B) Under an activity based budgeting system the focus is on existing resources and operations. Adjustments are then made for changes in activity and price which results in past inefficiencies being perpetuated.
Under a traditional budgeting system, only resources that are needed to perform activities required to meet the budgeted production and sales volumes are included.
C) Activity based budgeting allows the identification of value added and non-value added activities and ensures that cuts are made to non-value added activities. ABB is also useful for review of capacity utilization.
D) The approach under an activity based system is to make arbitrary cuts in order to meet overall financial targets.
E) ABB systems present costs under functional headings i.e. the emphasis is on the nature of the cost. The weakness of this approach is that it gives little indication of the link between the level of activity and the cost incurred.
F) Activity based techniques including activity based budgeting focus on the outputs of a process rather than the input to the process. This approach provides a clear framework for understanding the link between costs and the level of activity. It allows the ranking of activities and the determination of how limited resources should be allocated across competing activities.

4. JRL manufactures two products from different combinations of the same resources. Unit selling prices and unit cost details for each product are as follows:

* Refer to your answer in the previous question.
The optimal solution to the previous question shows that the shadow prices of skilled labour and direct material A are as follows:
Skilled labour $ Nil Direct Material A $11.70
Explain the relevance of these values to the management of JRL.
Select ALL the true statements.

A) The decrease in contribution as a result of this change is the value of the shadow price of material A. The shadow price thus represents the maximum premium that should be paid for an additional unit of material A.
B) The shadow price for skilled labour is NIL because although there is a shortage of skilled labour it does have a constraining effect on output of JR as other resources are more scarce.
C) The shadow price equals the additional contribution that would be earned from one extra unit of a scarce resource.
D) Since material A is one of the binding constraints, if the availability of material A could be increased by one unit, this would change the optimal plan.
E) In a situation such as this, where a number of resources are scarce, the shadow price of any particular scarce resource will depend on whether or not the resource is not binding.

5.
Calculate the sensitivity of the investment decision to a change in the annual fixed costs.
By how much should the present value of the fixed cost increase, before this project is not viable?

A) $9050
B) $8675
C) $6390
D) $7698

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