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Free Advanced Management Accounting Practice Questions

Question # 1

Performance measures that monitor the extent to which a not-for-profit organization's objectives have been achieved are measures of:

Options:

A.  

economy

B.  

efficiency

C.  

effectiveness

D.  

enterprise

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Question # 2

SDF is a newly-established production company that is experiencing high staff turnover in its factory. The production department is studying the manufacturing process and its associated learning curve.

Which of the following statements is correct?

Options:

A.  

SDF's staff turnover will disrupt the observation and measurement of the learning curve.

B.  

SDF's staff turnover will affect the learning curve.

C.  

SDF's rapid staff turnover means that knowledge of the learning curve has little value.

D.  

SDF can use the learning curve to determine labor budgets for the remainder of the first year of operation.

Discussion 0
Question # 3

In an organization's transfer pricing system the selling division and the purchasing division each record a different price for the same transaction.

This is known as a:

Options:

A.  

Dual pricing system.

B.  

Two part tariff system.

C.  

Full cost pricing system.

D.  

Marginal cost plus pricing system.

Discussion 0
Question # 4

The Chief Executive of a large manufacturing company has made the following comment.

"All of our competitors are using both just-in-time(JIT) and Total Quality Management (TQM) whereas we have never used either. Consequently we are lagging behind our competitors because their levels of inventory and quality costs are significantly below ours. I want to see JIT fully implemented, both for purchasing and for production, in 4 weeks' time and TQM fully implemented 4 weeks after that."

Which of the following provide appropriate advice to the Chief Executive?

Select ALL that apply.

Options:

A.  

Full implementation of JIT is unlikely to be successful unless a TQM environment has first been established.

B.  

Implementing TQM from scratch within 8 weeks should be feasible for a large manufacturing company, but implementing JIT within 4 weeks is unlikely to be feasible.

C.  

Total quality costs are likely to begin declining immediately once the process of implementing TQM has commenced.

D.  

JIT offers the long run prospect of significantly reducing inventory.

E.  

It would be possible to implement TQM without implementing JIT.

F.  

It is not possible to implement JIT for production without first implementing JIT for purchasing.

Discussion 0
Question # 5

The cash flows from a project are detailed in the table below.

Question # 5

To the nearest 1%, what is the project's internal rate of return?

Options:

A.  

15%

B.  

8%

C.  

46%

D.  

115%

Discussion 0
Question # 6

The following cost of quality report has been prepared for the latest period.

Question # 6

What is the difference between the cost of conformance and the cost of non-conformance?

Options:

Discussion 0
Question # 7

A public sector service organization is considering whether to use a balanced scorecard or a value for money approach based on the three Es to assess its performance.

Which of the following are correct comparisons of the balanced scorecard and value for money based on the three Es as performance measurement frameworks?

Select ALL that apply.

Options:

A.  

Efficiency is measured as one of the three Es but the balanced scorecard does not measure efficiency.

B.  

If the organization wishes to consider both financial and non-financial performance then the balanced scorecard should be used rather than the three Es.

C.  

The public's satisfaction with the organization's services can be measured by both the three Es and the balanced scorecard.

D.  

The balanced scorecard is concerned with meeting the organization's objectives whereas the three Es approach is concerned only with reducing costs.

E.  

The three Es approach was designed for public sector service organizations, but the balanced scorecard approach can also be used in the public sector.

Discussion 0
Question # 8

Which TWO of the following actions taken during the budgetary planning process will result in the creation of budgetary slack?

Options:

A.  

Overestimating costs

B.  

Underestimating costs

C.  

Underestimating revenues

D.  

Overestimating revenues

E.  

Overestimating profit

Discussion 0
Question # 9

Which TWO of the following expressions are correct?

Options:

A.  

1 + money rate = (1 + real rate) x (1 + inflation rate)

B.  

1 + real rate = (1 + money rate) / (1 + inflation rate)

C.  

1 + real rate = (1 + inflation rate) / (1 + money rate)

D.  

1 + money rate = (1 + inflation rate) / (1 + real rate)

E.  

1 + inflation rate = (1 + money rate) x (1 + real rate)

Discussion 0
Question # 10

A company has a maximum of $2 million to invest and has identified four viable projects, E, F, G and H.

The initial investment for each of the projects is the maximum amount that can be invested in the project, but any amount up to the maximum can be invested. The projects are divisible.

The projects have been evaluated using net present value, as below. All figures are $ millions.

Question # 10

In which project should the company invest $2 million?

Options:

A.  

Project E

B.  

Project F

C.  

Project G

D.  

Project H

Discussion 0

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