CIMA P2 - Advanced Management Accounting
A senior manager is concerned about the dysfunctional consequences of a company's current approach to budget preparation. The senior manager has discovered that budget holders are carrying budgetary slack forward from one period to the next without this being identified or challenged.
Which of the following approaches to budget preparation is the company using?
The following data are available for an investment centre for the latest period. Where appropriate the data have been adjusted to reflect economic values.
What cost of capital has been used to calculate the EVA?
Give your answer to the nearest percentage.
A supermarket group has experienced operational problems during recent years, including a shortage of warehousing space due to increasing turnover and poor inventory management. The product portfolio has expanded considerably. Although this has led to increased sales volume, marketing and logistics costs have increased disproportionately. Non product-specific costs have also increased significantly.
Management is now considering using Direct Product Profitability (DPP).
Which of the following statements are valid in respect of the possible implementation of DPP within the supermarket group?
Select ALL that apply.
A company has recently developed a new lawnmower with an estimated market life of 5 years. Production and sale of the lawnmower will require investment in new production equipment costing $750,000. It is expected that this equipment could be sold back to the original vendor for $50,000 at the end of five years.
Purchase of the equipment would be financed by a 5 year fixed rate bank loan at an interest rate of 6%.
A manager already employed by the company would be moved from their current position to manage production of the new lawnmower. Their original position would be filled by a new recruit on a fixed annual salary of $35,000.
Which of the following statements is NOT correct?
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:
Which of the following statements about learning curves is correct?
A very large organization is financed by both debt and equity. It evaluates all projects on the basis of their net present value (NPV) using an organization wide weighted average cost of capital as the discount rate.
For a small project, which TWO of the following would affect the project's cash flows AND the discount rate?
One aspect of life cycle costing is the recognition of the fact that during the design or development stage a large proportion of many products' life cycle costs are:
A company's competitor has just launched a rival product at a selling price of $38 per unit. Until now the company's selling price of $41.60 per unit has achieved a 30% mark-up on the product's unit cost. The company proposes to use a target costing approach to pricing to remain competitive.
Management has decided to match the competitor's selling price and has set a target cost to achieve a 20% return on the target price.
What is the cost gap?
An organization employs a dual pricing basis for the transfer of components between its divisions. This means that:
