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In order to provide information that is suitable for control purposes, the budget must be:

A.

Computer generated

B.

Fixed

C.

Flexed

D.

Ideal

In a company's sales ledger department, one additional invoice clerk is needed for every eighty customers added to the customer database. The total salary cost of invoice clerks is best described as:

A.

a variable cost

B.

a semi-variable cost

C.

a fixed cost

D.

a step cost

A product sells for £10 per unit and has an annual break-even volume of 50,000 units. The annual fixed costs are £100,000.

The variable cost per unit is:

Give your answer to 2 decimal places.

Which one of the following is a characteristic of strategic financial information?

A.

Detailed and accurate

B.

Provided mainly to junior managers

C.

Provided daily to keep managers informed

D.

Provides information for long term decision making

The materials price variance will be adverse when:

A.

The actual cost of the materials is more than the standard material cost for the output produced

B.

The actual cost of the materials purchased is more than the standard cost of the materials purchased

C.

The materials usage variance is favourable

D.

The price of materials has fallen

A company uses an integrated accounting system.

The accounting entries for the sale of goods on credit would bE.

A.

Debit: Receivables control accountCredit: Sales account

B.

Debit: Sales accountCredit: Finished Goods Control account

C.

Debit: Receivables control accountCredit: Cost of sales account

D.

Debit: Sales accountCredit: Receivables control account

SP Limited operates an absorption costing system. It uses a predetermined overhead absorption rate based on machine hours. Budgeted factory overheads for the year were £1,080,000 but actual overhead incurred was £1,046,000. Budgeted machine hours were 120,000 and actual machine hours were 119,000.

Overheads for the period were.

A.

Under-absorbed by £25,000

B.

Under-absorbed by £9,000

C.

Over-absorbed by £25,000

D.

Over-absorbed by £9,000

Refer to the exhibit.

Patchit Limited operates a job costing system. They have been asked to quote for a rush job that will require to be done in overtime hours. It is estimated that the job will incur the following costs:

Production overheads are absorbed on a direct labour hour basis. Budgeted direct labour hours for the year were 50,000 and budgeted direct labour cost was $300,000.

If production overheads had been based on a percentage of direct labour cost, the revised production costs for the job would be:

Refer to the exhibit.

The following information relates to Job 123:

The selling price to the customer for Job 123 is:

In investment appraisal, the internal rate of return is

A.

the target rate of return for all investment proposals

B.

the rate at which a project’s cash inflows is equal to its cash outflows

C.

the rate at which the present value of a project’s cash inflows is zero

D.

the rate at which the present value of a project’s cash inflows is equal to the present value of its cash outflows