N1510 INTERMEDIATE MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
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N1510 INTERMEDIATE MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
Section A – MCQs, 3 marks for each correct answer, 30 marks in total
QUESTION 1.
Nigel bought his first car in 2015 for £15,000 to own. In 2021, he decides to sell the car in an auction and was offered £8,300.
£15,000 is known as the…………… ..
a. replacement cost
b. incremental cost
c. sunk cost
d. relevant cost
[3 marks]
QUESTION 2.
Eliora Ltd produce corn chips and sell each pack for £2.50. They want to make a decision on whether or not to accept a customer’s offer to supply a large quantity of corn chips at £2.00 per pack. What costs and revenues should be considered in making this decision?
a. incremental costs and incremental revenue
b. fixed costs and total revenue at £2.50 per pack
c. historical costs and replacement revenue
d. none of the above
[3 marks]
QUESTION 3.
A company plans to sell 250 units of its product by the end of the month. The margin of safety is 10%. What is the break-even point in units?
a. 17.75 units
b. 225 units
c. 128 units
d. 240 units
[3 marks]
QUESTION 4.
When making decisions under conditions of uncertainty, certain decision rules apply. The decision rule that involves choosing the best of the worst-case scenarios is
called……………
a. maximin
b. maximax
c. minimax
d. none of the above
[3 marks]
QUESTION 5.
Esther sells meat at the open market every Tuesday. She does not know how much meat she will sell each time but she is always optimistic, hoping for the best. The average amount she sells on a good day is 120 kg of meat, on a moderate day she sells 80 kg of meat and on a bad day she sells 5 kg of meat. She buys the meat at £2.00 per kg and sells at £5.00 per kg. Considering Esther’s risk appetite, what will be her net margin on a moderate day?
a. £15
b. £240
c. £360
d. £160
[3 marks]
QUESTION 6.
……………… .is a type of control where the focus is on outcomes of work effort and
does not necessarily involve the processes in arriving at the output.
a. action control
b. personnel control
c. culture control
d. results control
[3 marks]
QUESTION 7.
Which of the following is a principle where costs assigned to a responsibility centre are only those costs that can be influenced by the manager of that responsibility centre?
a. controllability principle
b. profit-conscious principle
c. centralised principle
d. revenue principle
[3 marks]
QUESTION 8.
The budgeted sales revenue for 10,000 units in March was £15,000. The actual sales revenue in March for 9,500 units was £18,000. Using flexed budgeting, what would be the selling price variance?
a. £13,200 adv
b. £14,250 fav
c. £3,750 fav
d. £3,000 adv
[3 marks]
QUESTION 9.
The manufacture of an office chair should require 10 square feet of oakwood, at a cost of £5 per square foot. Since the standards were set, the market price of oakwood has fallen by 10%. A batch of 1,000 office chairs has just been completed, using 10,000 square feet of oakwood and costing £48,500. What is the operational material price variance?
a.£1,500 fav
b.£1,500 adv
c) £3,500 adv
d) £5,250 fav
[3 marks]
QUESTION 10.
…………… .. is a divisional financial performance measure where the divisional
accounting profit is adjusted for a (notional) charge on capital employed in the division.
a. Return on investment
b. Residual income
c. Economic value added
d. Accounting rate of return
[3 marks]
Section B – Fill in the gaps, 3 marks each, 30 marks in total
Please read case one below and answer questions 11 to 15.
Case One: Gil Ltd makes and sells product A using material Q. The required production from the production budget and other relevant information for the purchase of material Q for the first quarter are given below.
|
January |
February |
March |
Quarter |
Required production |
30,000 units |
35,000 units |
48,000 units |
|
Direct materials needed to make one unit of product A at a rate of £5 per kg |
3kg |
3kg |
3kg |
|
Desired closing inventory is ten percent (10%) of next month’s needs |
|
|
2,000 kg |
? |
Planned opening inventory |
1,200 kg |
|
? |
|
Total material purchase needs in kg |
|
|
|
? |
Total purchase cost in £ |
|
? |
|
|
QUESTIONS 11-15.
11.What is the desired closing inventory at the end of the first
quarter?..........................
[3 marks]
12.What is the total purchase cost of direct materials needed for the month of
February? ………… ..
[3 marks]
13.What is the planned opening inventory of direct materials for the month of
March? …………………… ..
[3 marks]
14.How many units of material Q should be purchased in the first quarter
(January to March)? ………………………
[3 marks]
15.Briefly discuss three purposes of
budgeting. …………………………………………………………
[3 marks]
Please read this case and answer questions 16 to 20.
Case Two: Bonne Nuit Ltd manufacture and sell top quality beds and mattresses. In the mattresses department, Bonne Nuit make pocket sprung, foam and latex mattresses. In the past, they have used absorption costing system to allocate overhead costs to their products, with labour hours as the allocation base. The following information relates to the production and sale of the three mattresses.
|
Pocket sprung |
Foam |
Latex |
Selling price per unit |
£1,000 |
£750 |
£2,150 |
Direct material cost per unit |
£238.50 |
£156 |
£219.60 |
Direct labour cost per unit |
£90 |
£60 |
£150 |
Direct labour hours to make one unit |
8 |
6 |
10 |
Annual production (units) |
1,440 |
2,296 |
1,400 |
Number of set ups per annum |
180 |
60 |
60 |
Number of purchase orders per annum |
200 |
320 |
80 |
Production overhead costs consist of:
Output related overheads £1,350,000
Quality control £1,100,000
Machine set up overheads £1,346,396
Procurement costs
Total
£172,500
£3,968,896
Bonne Nuit have found that their competitors use another method, activity-based costing system, to allocate their overhead costs. They want to see if there is a difference in the costing of their products when activity-based costing is used.
16.Using absorption costing system, the overhead absorption rate per direct
labour hour is ………… ..
[3 marks]
17.Using absorption costing system, the production overhead cost to allocate to
one foam mattress is ……………… .
[3 marks]
18.Using absorption costing system, what is the total production cost for one
latex mattress (to the nearest whole number)? …………… ..
[3 marks]
19.Using activity-based costing system, how much, in total, of machine set up overheads should be charged to the production of all pocket sprung mattresses
(to the nearest whole number)? -----------------------------
[3 marks]
20.Briefly discuss three limitations of a traditional absorption costing system.
………………………… ..
[3 marks]
Section C. There are two questions in this section worth 40 marks in total.
QUESTION 21.
Wale Plc produces three products, X, Y and Z. These three products pass through the packaging department which has been determined to be a bottleneck. Only two
machines are available in the packaging department and each has a maximum capacity of 275 hours a month. Further information are given below:
|
X |
Y |
Z |
Estimated production (units) |
19,000 |
12,000 |
25,000 |
Selling price per unit |
£10 |
£8 |
£5 |
Material costs per unit |
£1 |
£3 |
£0.40 |
Labour costs and factory overhead cost per unit |
£4 |
£0.20 |
£1 |
Hours required to package 100 units |
2 |
3 |
1 |
The management of Wale Plc have noted that labour and factory overhead costs are constant at £192,100.
a) Calculate the throughput accounting ratio for products X, Y and Z and advice the management of Wale Plc on the number of units of each product to make in a month. Show all workings.
[12 marks]
b) Comment on other factors Wale Plc could consider in order to maximise their operating profit given the bottleneck resource.
[3 marks] [total – 15 marks]
QUESTION 22.
ProtectMe Ltd is a small-size UK disposable medical gloves manufacturer. They have enjoyed a relatively stable environment in previous years with expected profits almost matching the actual profits. Based on historical sales data other assumptions, they came up with the following figures for their expected activities in 2020.
Selling price for a pair of gloves - £3.00
Variable cost for a pair of gloves - £1.30
Fixed costs for the year - £100,000
Expected sales volume – 100,000 pairs
Further research has shown that there may be a disruption to their normal activities in 2020. Ten businesses entered into the glove manufacturing market in December 2019. Three staff members of ProtectMe have informed the management that they have been offered a job at one of the new rival companies and would take the job if they are not offered a pay rise. There is also news that the rival firms will offer their gloves at much lower prices in 2020. ProtectMe might be forced to lower the selling price of their gloves or risk a decline in sales demand if this information is true. Inflation might
increase by 5% in the UK in 2020. This would mean an increase in fuel expenses and other costs.
ProctectMe are worried that a change in the selling price or costs might severely affect their expected profit. They have heard of sensitivity analysis and have approached you as a management accounting consultant to carry out sensitivity analysis based on the above information.
a) Calculate the breakeven point in units and margin of safety in %.
[2 marks]
b) Calculate the expected profit.
[2 marks]
c) Assuming all assumptions made are worse by 25%, perform a sensitivity analysis based on the information above and advise the management of ProtectMe Plc on which variables are most sensitive to the expected profit.
[6 marks]
d) Briefly discuss other factors ProtectMe might wish to consider in their profit forecasts.
[3 marks]
You are required to show all workings.
e) Assuming that ProtectMe makes other types of products, critically discuss the appropriate control mechanism to use for the gloves centre and the management style that should be used to access the performance of the manager of the gloves centre.
[12 marks] [total 25 marks]
2022-08-09