CIMA BA2 - Fundamentals of management accounting

A company has spent $5,000 on a report into the viability of using a subcontractor. The report highlighted the following:

A machine purchased six years ago for $30,000 would become surplus to requirements. It has a written-down value of $10,000 but would be resold for $12,000.

A machine operator would be made redundant and would receive a redundancy payment of $40,000.

The administration of the subcontractor arrangement would cost the company $25,000 each year.

Which THREE of the following are relevant for the decision? (Choose three.)

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?

A company absorbs production overhead using a direct labour hour rate. Data for the latest period are as follows:

What is the overhead absorption rate per direct labour hour? Give your answer to one decimal place.

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.

An organisation’s management report contains the following data:

Which division has the highest operating margin percentage?

A company which manufactures and sells one product has fixed costs of $80,000 per period. The selling price per unit of $25 generates a contribution/sales ratio of 40%.

How many units would need to be sold in a period to earn a profit of $10,000?

Every month for the last three years, a company has recorded the number of new customers for that month. The data have been summarised and grouped as follows:

What is the arithmetic mean of the number of new customers per month?

A company’s policy is to hold closing inventory each month equal to 10% of the next month’s budgeted sales volume. The budgeted sales volumes of product Q for months 1 and 2 are 1,660 units and 2,300 units respectively.

The production budget for product Q for month 1 is:

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?

The records of a manufacturing company show the following relationship between total cost and output.

The budgeted output for Period 3 is 27,000 units. Assume that previous cost behaviour patterns will continue.

What is the total budgeted cost for Period 3?

Give your answer in the nearest whole number.