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Which of the following statements about modified internal rate of return (MIRR) and internal rate of return (IRR) is correct?
A company has just completed the production of the first 16 batches of a product. A learning curve has been observed throughout. The following table gives further details.
To the nearest whole percentage, what rate of learning is implied?
The performance of an investment centre manager is assessed by return on investment (ROI) alone. At present, his expected ROI for next year is 15%. The manager must now decide whether to invest in a new project that is expected to yield an ROI of 14%. The cost of capital is 12%.
Indicate whether each of the following statements is true or false.
Using Porter's value chain, place the tokens to correctly categories the following activities of a manufacturing company.
An airline company has operated passenger flights with low ticket prices to various airports from a busy airport for several years. It now faces increased competition on a number of its routes and has decided to use the balanced scorecard to monitor its performance.
Which of the following statements are correct?
Select ALL that apply.
PorkyCo is a leading bread manufacturer in Toyland operating two functional divisions: pulled and roasted. PorkyCo uses IT systems in all of its functions, for example, accounting has one system, manufacturing has its
system, warehousing has another and human resources is the latest to develop a dedicated system to manage training and development
The issue now is that when the CEO, Mr Button, needs information about two or more functions, he has to convene the department heads to get their reports and then study each in turn. As senior management
accountant at PorkyCo, help free up Mr Button's time by suggesting the most efficient way of getting all the information he needs.
Which of the following statements are correct with regard to responsibility centres?
Select ALL that apply.
An organization employs a dual pricing basis for the transfer of components between its divisions. This means that:
A division of a company transfers all its output to other divisions in the same company.
For this division, which of the following measures is NOT affected by the transfer price that the division uses?
The manager of Ice Sculpting Co. believes that too much material is being wasted during downtime. She researched, and found throughput accounting to be an adequate alternative. However, she wasn't sure if all that
she read was accurate.
Which of the following statements are TRUE when using Throughput Accounting? Select ALL that apply.
An electronics company sells a range of tablet computers. Tablet computers come complete with an operating system that is regarded as the market leader. The company aims to launch a new version of its hardware every eighteen months and a major update to its software every three years. The latest version of the tablet computer is always sold at a higher price, but the older version that has been replaced is then sold for a time at a discounted price.
Which pricing model does this company appear to be using?
Residual income is an appropriate performance measure for which type of responsibility centre?
A company must decide today whether to proceed with a proposed project. If the project proceeds, the initial investment of $150,000 would be made in one year's time. The benefit of the project would be a perpetuity of $22,000 per year commencing one year after the investment is made. The company's cost of capital is 14% per year.
To the nearest $100, what is the net present value of the project?
Company X is considering the launch of a new product. In order to compete in the market the selling price must be $100 per unit. Company X aims to achieve a sales margin of 25 per cent.
Direct materials cost is $75 for each unit. It takes 15 minutes for workers to assemble each unit. Workers are paid $16 per hour. 5 per cent of paid time is idle. Overheads are absorbed at $6.50 per unit.
What is the value of any cost gap between the forecast total cost and the target cost?
SkillWeave Industries are focused on managing the risk of selling their cars to the region due to economic turmoil, and have now begun using funds from sales in the region to fund supplier purchases from that region to
reduce the risk from the volatile currency. However, SkillWeave want to go a step further and make the risk even less sizeable.
Which of the following is a method by which SkillWeave can operate in the market and transfer the risk of exchange rate exposure to another party?
Which TWO of the following actions taken during the budgetary planning process will result in the creation of budgetary slack?
Place the correct category of Value Chain activity against each of the activities described below.
A manufacturing company has recently introduced a Total Quality Management (TQM) system. The company has invested heavily in the education and training of its staff, in addition to implementing new product design engineering. There is a plan to sample units from each batch of products manufactured to test for errors, although this has not yet been implemented due to budget constraints.
The company is experiencing high levels of customer complaints, with many faulty units being returned by the customer for refund or replacement. Sales revenue has fallen recently, mainly due to negative press coverage linked to dissatisfied customers.
Select the statement MOST likely to apply.
Place the correct quality cost classification against each cost described below.
A project requires an initial investment of $50,000. It will generate positive cash flows for two years as follows.
The cost of capital is 12% per year.
What is the equivalent annual net present value of the project?
Give your answer to the nearest $10.
The discount rate at which the net present value (NPV) is zero is known as the
A large supermarket is applying direct product profitability analysis to establish the profit earned by each of the products it sells.
Data for product P are as follows.
The shelf is stacked each time that all units are sold and there are no units of product P left unsold at the end of each day.
What is the direct product profit per unit of product P?
Give your answer to the nearest $0.01.
The performance report for the production manager of a company for the last month included the following.
1,000 direct labor hours were worked at a basic rate of pay of $10 per hour. 200 of these hours were worked during overtime for which a 30% overtime premium was paid. 80 of these overtime hours were to fulfill a customer order that had originally been planned for manufacture next month. The sales manager had agreed to bring forward the delivery of this order at the request of the customer. The remaining overtime hours were due to unexpected inefficiency of the workforce; this has been traced to poor supervision by a junior manager.
Material costs included the following:
What is the total value of the above costs that was controllable by the production manager?
A manager must decide which one of three projects should be implemented. For each project the possible outcomes and their associated probabilities can be estimated reliably. The manager has decided to make the decision based solely on which project has the highest expected value of profit.
Which of the following statements are correct?
Select ALL that apply.
Which of the following investment appraisal methods provides an absolute monetary value on which to base decisions?
The following data relate to an investment opportunity.
The percentage reduction in the annual revenue that could occur before the project is no longer financially viable is:
A goal congruent transfer price will always:
The following cash flows are forecast for a potential investment project.
The cost of capital for the project is 12% per year and the company uses a straight line depreciation policy.
What is the modified internal rate of return (MIRR) of the project?
Give your answer to the nearest whole percentage.
A company is investing in a huge diversification project. The plan is to develop and sell a whole new product line that they have never sold before. They've already started a massive marketing campaign for this new
product line and they are getting good feedback in their market research.
They've had to use debt funding in order to finance the project, but they hope that the returns will be worth the investment and restructuring. If they are successful they will be a step ahead of all their competitors and offer
something none of them can.
What is the risk appetite of this company?
An organization uses a balanced scorecard approach to performance measurement, both at the corporate level and to assess the performance of each of its responsibility centre managers.
Which THREE of the following statements are valid in respect of the effect of this approach on the behavior of the responsibility centre managers?
