P1 Practice Questions

When preparing data for a short term decision, which THREE of the following are relevant costs?

‘A zero-based budgeting system involves establishing decision packages that are then ranked in order of their relative importance in meeting the organization’s objectives’. 

Which of the following is true regarding he difficulties that a not-for-profit organization may experience when trying to rank decision packages.

Select ALL true statements.

PQR has recently introduced an activity-based costing system.

It manufactures three products, details of which are given below.

The budgeted production overhead costs for the year are shown in table below:

What is budgeted machine set-up cost per unit of Product J?

Give your answer to the nearest cent.

According to a decision tree forecasting, there are three possible outcomes of a project requiring £10,000 capital investment. They are (along with probability of occurring): £20,000 in revenue (45%), £35,000 (15%),

£10,000 (30%) and -£6,000 (10%).

However, choosing another project (2) requiring the same investment would give us £12,000 and choosing project 3 would give us a 90% chance of generating revenues of £15,000 but a 5% chance of revenues of £0.

Project 4 is wildly ambitious and boasts an unlikely (5% chance) of generating revenues of £100,000. There is a 10% probability of negative revenues.

Which is the risk averse investor more likely to take?

Project 1

Project 2

Project 3

Project 4

A company's budgeted data for the period are shown in the table below.

There is a stepped increase in fixed overheads of $10,000 when production exceeds 52,000 units.

Actual production for the period was 60,000 units.

What is the flexed budgeted cost for the period?

Give your answer as a whole number (in '000s).

A company is choosing between three projects, Project L, Project M and Project N using minimax regret. The outcome from each project is dependent on competitor reaction. If this is passive returns will be L $4,000, M $3,500 and N $5,200. If it is aggressive returns will be L $3,200, M $2,800 and N $2,950. Place the tokens into the table to show the maximum regret for each project and whether the project would be undertaken using minimax regret.

A company is basing its budget on predicted sales of one of its products. They have tasked you with forecasting the sales in year 2. The company has found that a fairly accurate prediction can be found when the trend

is calculated like so:

a = 10,000

b = 2,000

The sales of year 1 were affected by seasonal variation and were as follows:

Q1:12,500

Q2:14,200

Q3:15,400

Q4:19,650

You use a multiplicative model and round percentages to the nearest whole percent.

Select ALL the correct quarterly forecasts of year 2 from the list.

A company is considering whether to develop an overseas market for its products. The cost of developing the new market is estimated to be $250,000. There is a 70% probability that the development of the new market will succeed and a 30% probability that the development of the new market will fail and no further expenditure will be incurred.

If the market development is successful, the profit from the new market will depend on prevailing exchange rates. There is a 50% chance that exchange rates will be in line with expectations and a profit of $500,000 will be made. There is a 20% chance that exchange rates will be favorable and a profit of $630,000 will be made and a 30% chance that exchange rates will be adverse and a profit of $100,000 will be made.

The profit figures stated are before taking account of the development costs of $250,000.

Use a decision tree to decide whether the company should develop an overseas market for its products.

Select one correct answer.

PL currently earns an annual contribution of $2,880,000 from the sale of 90,000 units of product

B.  

The management of PL is considering reducing the selling price per unit to $48. The estimated levels of demand at the revised selling price and the probabilities of them occurring are as follows:

Calculate the probability that the profit will increase from its current level if the selling price is reduced to $48.