CIMA P1 - Management Accounting Question Tutorial Sample Questions:

1. 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?

A) $2950
B) $2870
C) $2750
D) $3010
E) $3610

2. TP makes wedding cakes that are sold to specialist retail outlets which decorate the cakes according to the customers' specific requirements. The standard cost per unit of its most popular cake is as follows:

The general market prices at the time of purchase for Ingredient A and Ingredient B were $23 per kg and $20 per kg respectively. TP operates a JIT purchasing system for ingredients and a JIT production system; therefore, there was no inventory during the period.
What was the material yield variance?

A) The material yield variance was $155 500 A
B) The material yield variance was $175 500 A
C) The material yield variance was $175 000 A
D) The material yield variance was $155 000 A
E) The material yield variance was $98 500 A

3. 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?

A) $125 000
B) $145 000
C) $140 000
D) $135 000

4. A company is preparing its annual budget and is estimating the number of units of Product W that it will sell in each quarter of year 2. Past experience has shown that the trend for sales of the product is represented by the following relationship:

Calculate the expected unit sales of Product W for each quarter of year 2, after adjusting for seasonal variations using the multiplicative model.

A) The sales forecast for year 2 Quarter 4 = 35,100 units
B) The sales forecast for year 2 Quarter 4 = 22,600 units
C) The sales forecast for year 2 Quarter 4 = 25,100 units
D) The sales forecast for year 2 Quarter 4 = 38,100 units

5. A company produces three products D, E and F. The statement below shows the selling price and product costs per unit for each product, based on a traditional absorption costing system.

Each of the products is produced using Process A which has a maximum capacity of 2,500 hours per period.
If a throughput accounting approach is used, the ranking of products, in order of priority, for the profit maximizing product mix will be:

A) E, D, F
B) D, F, E
C) F, D, E
D) D, E, F

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