In an integrated cost and financial accounting system, the accounting entries for the payment of net wages to indirect production workers would be:
A small airport’s management accountant has prepared the following management report on the performance of its four retail outlets.
Which retail outlet has the highest contribution per square metre?
In a manufacturing company which produces a range of products, the production manager's salary would be classified as A.
A company absorbs production overhead using a direct labour hour rate. Data for the latest period are as follows:
What is the overhead absorption rate per direct labour hour? Give your answer to one decimal place.
According to CIMA’s Code of Ethics, CIMA members should not allow bias, conflict of interest of the influence of other people to override their professional judgement.
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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:
The net present value (NPV) of an investment is as follows.
NPV at 14% = $6,320
NPV at 18% = ($4,600) negative
The internal rate of return (IRR) of the investment is closest to
An increase in the selling price per unit, will cause the point at which the line plotted on a profit/volume (PV) graph intersects the horizontal axis to:
Refer to the Exhibit.
A company operates a batch costing system.
Production overhead costs are absorbed into the cost of batches using a direct labour hour rate. Other overhead costs are absorbed at a rate of 20% of total production cost. The company adds a mark-up of 10% to total cost in order to derive its selling prices.
Budgeted production overheads for the period are $44,000 and the budgeted level of activity is 8,800 direct labour hours.
The following data are available for batch number 309:
The required selling price per unit (to two decimal places) is:
Which of the following would NOT be an appropriate performance measure for a profit centre manager?