CIMA Management Accounting - P1 Exam Practice Test

A company manufactures a single product and absorbs fixed production overheads at a predetermined rate based on budgeted expenditure and budgeted units.
Which TWO of the following would definitely lead to an over absorption of fixed production overheads?

Explain why sensitivity analysis is useful when dealing with uncertainty in project appraisal.
Select all the true statements.

A company has budgeted to produce 5,000 units of Product B per month. The opening and closing inventories of Product B for next month are budgeted to be 400 units and 900 units respectively. The budgeted selling price and variable production costs per unit for Product B are as follows:

Total budgeted fixed production overheads are $29,500 per month. The company absorbs fixed production overheads on the basis of the budgeted number of units produced. The budgeted profit for Product B for next month, using absorption costing, is $20,700.
Prepare a marginal costing statement which shows the budgeted profit for Product B for next month.
What was the difference between the profit calculation using marginal costing and the profit calculation using absorption costing?

Company M is preparing its budgeted profit statement for the next year.
The initial budget for Product A is as follows with some changes proposed by the sales director to increase the quality of the product.
What would the budgeted profit of Product A be if the proposed changes are made?

Give your answer as a whole number.

A project has five possible outcomes as follows:

The probability of a contribution of $68,000 is equal to the probability of a contribution of $75,000.
Fixed costs are $70,000.
What is the probability of the project making a profit?

EFG is a small business making raspberry jam to sell at local markets. It has recently been approached by a major supermarket to produce a special order for the supply of lemon curd.
Two of the ingredients required are sugar and preservatives, both of which are in inventory.
The sugar has a historic cost of $4 per kg and a replacement cost of $5. It is in regular use for the production of the raspberry jam.
The factory has switched to organic processes and the preservatives are no longer required.
The historic cost of the preservatives was $3 per kg and the replacement cost is $2.50 per kg.
The preservatives can be re-sold to a local competitor for $1 per kg if they are not used in this order.
Which TWO of the following should be included in determining the relevant cost of the special order?

QR uses an activity based budgeting (ABB) system to budget product costs. It manufactures two products, product Q and product R. The budget details for these two products for the forthcoming period are as follows:

The total budgeted cost of setting up the machines is $74,400.
Select TWO potential benefits of using an activity based budgeting system.

Rank the budgets listed below to show the order in which they should normally be prepared:

A company sells two products, X and Y, which are always sold in the same ratio.
No inventories are held.
The following budgeted data relate to month 10:

What is the budgeted margin of safety in month 10?

Petco's material price standard was £8 per kg.
When looking over their accounts you calculate that in fact they they purchased 2,000kg at £6 per kg due to an overly abundant harvest that lowered global pet food prices.
You have been asked by your manager to analyse these figures and come to a conclusion.
With that in mind which of the following statements are correct? Select ALL that apply.

A company has to choose between three mutually exclusive projects. Market research has shown that customers could react to the projects in three different ways depending on their preferences. There is a
30% chance that customers will exhibit preferences 1, a 20% chance they will exhibit preferences 2 and a 50% chance they will exhibit preferences 3. The company uses expected value to make this type of decision.
The net present value of each of the possible outcomes is as follows:

A market research company believes it can provide perfect information about the preferences of customers in this market.
What is the maximum amount that should be paid for the information from the market research company?

Each finished unit of product G contains 2 litres of ingredient L. Losses during production are 10% of input of ingredient L. Budgeted data for next period are as follows:

The budgeted purchases of ingredient L for next period are:

MBB is considering the costs to be incurred in respect of a special order.
The order would require 625 kg of Material K.
This is a material that is readily available and regularly used by the organization in its other products.
There are 265 kg of Material K in inventory which cost $1,590 when it was purchased.
The current market price is $6.48 per kg.
Material K is normally used to make Product X. Each unit of Material X requires 3 kg of Material K, and if Material K is costed at $6 per kg, each unit of Product X yields a contribution of $30.
The relevant cost of Material K to be included in the costing of the special order is:

You are a trainee management accountant working for a prestigious manufacturing firm. One day you go to a business meeting a business meeting and the managing director is there. They stand up and say that the company is losing too much money through wastage and losses and so they have decided to implement a total quality management system. They go on to say this system will:
1:Allow the company to improve on a consistent and continual basis
2:Allow the company to identify and allocate quality accountability to certain departments
3:Help the company detect error and fraud
Are ALL of these statements correct?

The inventory level of Product Y has reduced by 40 units over a single period. The cost card for Product Y is as follows:

The profit for Product Y using marginal costing is $26,000.
If the company used absorption costing, what would the profit for Product Y be?
Give your answer to the nearest whole $.