Firefighters risk serious and potentially fatal accidents whenever they attend an incident.
Which of the following statements is correct?
The following data are available for an investment centre for the latest period. Where appropriate the data have been adjusted to reflect economic values.
What cost of capital has been used to calculate the EVA?
Give your answer to the nearest percentage.
A very large organization is financed by both debt and equity. It evaluates all projects on the basis of their net present value (NPV) using an organization wide weighted average cost of capital as the discount rate.
For a small project, which TWO of the following would affect the project's cash flows AND the discount rate?
The net present value of the cost of operating a machine for the next 4 years is £6,340. The discount rate used is 10%.
What is the equivalent annual cost and the present value of the cost in perpetuity of operating this machine?
Use discount factors to 3 decimal places.
Which of the following investment appraisal methods provides an absolute monetary value on which to base decisions?
A company currently absorbs production overheads based on labor hours. The overheads absorbed by the two products that are made, L and M, are $4 per unit and $10 per unit respectively. These were based on the budgeted overheads of $7,000 and budgeted labor hours of 1,750. The budgeted output was 500 units of each product.
The company is investigating the use of activity based costing (ABC). Analysis has shown that the total production overheads of $7,000 are made up of $4,000 for set up costs and $3,000 for inspection costs. The cost driver for set up costs is the number of set ups and for inspection costs it is the number of inspections.
The cost driver rate for set ups is $160 per set up. Product L would need 5 production runs. Both types of product would need 1 set up for each production run.
Product L would need 2 inspections for each production run. Product M would need 1 inspection per production run.
The products are made in the same department and use the same equipment and staff but they are produced separately.
Which of the following statements are correct?
Select ALL that apply.
Which of the following statements about the use of traditional budgeting compared with a beyond budgeting approach is correct?
A large company that sells a single product has many customers. The contribution per unit of the product is $40. Data for the company as a whole are given below.
Using customer profitability analysis, what is the total annual profit for this customer?
Place each of the activities described below against the correct classification of quality costs.
A machine requires an initial investment of $500,000. The net present value (NPV) of the investment in the machine is $36,500.
Which of the following statements is correct in relation to the sensitivity of the investment?
TESTED 02 Feb 2025
