Which of the following sources of information would be considered internal?
Which of the following statements is true of pricing?
Which of the following conditions would need to be true for a price skimming policy to be sensible?
The following are types of Key Performance Indicators:
(i) Return on Capital Employed
(ii) Gross profit percentage
(iii) Acid Test ratio
(iv) Gearing ratio
Which of the above KPIs would be used to assess the liquidity of a company?
Why would a company want to encourage the use of non-financial performance indicators?
UU Company has been asked to quote for a special contract. The following information about the material needed has been given:
Material X:
Book value Scrap value Replacement cost
$5.00 per kg $0.50 per kg $5.50 per kg
The contract requires 10 kgs of Material X. There are 250 kgs of this material in inventory which was purchased in error over two years ago. If Material X is modified, at a cost of $2 per kg, it could then be used as a substitute for material Y which is in regular use and currently costs $6 per kg.
What is the relevant cost of the materials for the special contract?
VV Company has been asked to quote for a special contract. The contract requires 100 hours of labour. However, the labourers, who are each paid $15 per hour, are working at full capacity.
There is a shortage of labour in the market. The labour required to undertake this special contract would have to be taken from another contract, Z, which currently utilises 500 hours of labour and generates $5,000 worth of contribution.
If the labour was taken from contract Z, then the whole of contract Z would have to be delayed, and such delay would invoke a penalty fee of $1,000.
What is the relevant cost of the labour for the special contract?
Dust Co has two divisions, A and B. Each division is currently considering the following separate projects:
Division A Division B
Capital required for the project $32.6 million $22.2 million
Sales generated by the project $14.4 million $8.8 million
Operating profit margin 30% 24%
Cost of capital 10% 10%
Current return on investment of division 15% 9%
If residual income is used as the basis for the investment decision, which division(s) would choose to invest in the project?
Oxco has two divisions, A and B. Division A makes a component for air conditioning units which it can only sell to Division B. It has no other outlet for sales.
Current information relating to Division A is as follows:
Marginal cost per unit $100
Transfer price of the component $165
Total production and sales of the component each year 2,200 units
Specific fixed costs of Division A per year $10,000
Cold Co has offered to sell the component to Division B for $140 per unit.
If Division B accepts this offer, Division A will be shut. If Division B accepts Cold Co’s offer, what will be the impact on profits per year for the group as a whole?
A company has used expected values to evaluate a one-off project. The expected value calculation assumed two possible profit outcomes which were assigned probabilities of 0.4 and 0.6.
Which of the following statements about this approach are correct?
(1) The expected value profit is the profit which has the highest probability of being achieved.
(2) The expected value gives no indication of the dispersion of the possible outcomes.
(3) Expected values are relatively insensitive to assumptions about probability.
(4) The expected value may not correspond to any of the actual possible outcomes.