P2 Exam Dumps - Advanced Management Accounting

Kaizen costing is being used by an organization to gradually reduce the unit cost of one of its products in order to achieve a 20% mark up on the product's cost.

The selling price of the product must be $72 per unit and this selling price has been maintained for two years.

Two years ago the product's cost was $3 per unit more than its selling price. Kaizen costing has achieved an 8% reduction from the previous period's unit cost in each of the past two years. The organization expects to continue to achieve the same rate of cost reduction next year.

Which of the following statements provides an accurate analysis of the extent to which Kaizen costing has been successful in achieving the required unit cost for the product?

The performance report for the production manager of a company for the last month included the following.

1,000 direct labor hours were worked at a basic rate of pay of $10 per hour. 200 of these hours were worked during overtime for which a 30% overtime premium was paid. 80 of these overtime hours were to fulfill a customer order that had originally been planned for manufacture next month. The sales manager had agreed to bring forward the delivery of this order at the request of the customer. The remaining overtime hours were due to unexpected inefficiency of the workforce; this has been traced to poor supervision by a junior manager.

Material costs included the following:

• $5,300 of material A. Material A is a commodity and, due to changes on the global market, the actual unit cost of this material for last month was 6% higher than had been expected
• $5,250 of material B. The usage of material B last month was 5% higher than it should have been due to faulty workmanship on the production line.

What is the total value of the above costs that was controllable by the production manager?

Residual income is an appropriate performance measure for which type of responsibility centre?

One of a company's products is sold to three customers: A, B and C. These customers do not buy anything else from the company. The product costs $20 per unit to manufacture and is sold to the customers for $50 per unit.

The following table shows data for sales and selling costs for the latest period.

Delivery costs of $32,000 and general overheads of $60,000 were incurred during the period.

Deliveries to customers A and B were made by a courier in batches of 100 units; the courier charged $300 for each batch delivered to customer A and $400 for each batch delivered to customer B. Deliveries to customer C were made by mail in batches of 10 units at a cost of $60 per batch.

Which of the following statements is correct?

A company manufactures and sells a range of products. Relevant data for one unit of a particular product are as follows.

The company is using target costing to ensure that it achieves a contribution of 40% of the market selling price.

In order to achieve the target cost, by how much does the company need to reduce the variable cost per unit?

Four mutually exclusive projects have been appraised as follows using net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), accounting rate of return (ARR) and payback period (PP).

Recommend which of the projects should be chosen.

The manager of Ice Sculpting Co. believes that too much material is being wasted during downtime. She researched, and found throughput accounting to be an adequate alternative. However, she wasn't sure if all that

she read was accurate.

Which of the following statements are TRUE when using Throughput Accounting? Select ALL that apply.

An organization has carried out a risk assessment for a project.

Which of the following possible outcomes are examples of upside risk?

Select ALL that apply.