A company has three production departments X, Y and Z, and one service department.
The service department’s overhead has been apportioned to the production departments in the ratio 3:2:5. As a result of this apportionment, $2,070 was given to Department Y.
What is the amount of service department overhead that would have been apportioned to Department Z? Give your answer to the nearest dollar.
A confectionery manufacturer is considering adding a new product to the current range. Forecast data for the product are as follows.
Incremental fixed costs attributable to the new product are forecast to be $24,000 each period.
The forecast sales volume of 180 units is insufficient to achieve the target profit of $10,000 each period.
Which of the following statements is correct?
A sales manager has analysed a sample of 350 sales transactions from the latest period. The manager wishes to investigate:
how many customers made their purchase online using the internet and how many purchased by telephone.
how many were new customers and how many were placing repeat orders.
The following table shows the results of the analysis.
If the pattern of sales occurs next period, the probability of a particular sale being a repeat order placed online is closest to:
Which TWO of the following are characteristics of Management Accounts? (Choose two.)
A company’s management accountant wishes to calculate the present value of the cost of renting a delivery vehicle. There will be five annual rental payments of $5,000, the first of which is due immediately. The company’s discount rate is 12%.
Which TWO of the following are valid ways to calculate the present value of the rental payments? (Choose two.)
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 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.
Which of the following is NOT a valid purpose of budgeting?
The concept of the time value of money:
The forecast costs per unit for a new product are as follows:
The company uses marginal cost plus pricing and all products are required to achieve a 40% margin.
What would be the selling price per unit?
