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The labour requirement for a special contract is 250 skilled labour hours paid at $10 per hour and 750 semi-skilled labour hours paid at $8 per hour.

At present, skilled labour is fully utilised on other contracts which generate a $12 contribution per hour, after charging labour costs. Additional skilled labour is unavailable in the short term.

There is a surplus of 1,200 semi-skilled hours over the period of the contract but the firm has a policy of no redundancies.

The relevant cost of labour for the special contract is:

JKI is planning a golfing holiday for a group of wealthy lawyers.

The lawyers will fly to the local airport at their own expense. JKI will then pay for transport, accommodation and the use of the golf course (green fees).

JKI's costings are as follows, based on 28 participants:

JKI received 46 applications from potential participants.

What would the profit be if JKI accepted all of these bookings?

Give your answer to the nearest whole number.

The following statements relate to the advantage(s) that linear regression has over the high-low method in the analysis of cost behaviour:

Which statement(s) is/are true?

The budgetary control report of XYZ for the latest period is shown below. Variances in brackets are adverse.

What is the sales volume profit variance?

Company XPP sells a perishable product that has to be produced each day in anticipation of the following day's sales.

Any product remaining unsold at the end of the day following production is wasted.

The payoff table below shows the daily profit or loss depending on the amounts produced and sold.

A new ordering system is being discussed with customers.

The new system would require customers to order in advance to enable production each day of the following day's sales quantity, thus eliminating waste.

What is the expected increase in average daily profit if the new system is accepted by customers?

Give your answer as a whole number.

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

Forecast sales demand of product W next period is 6,800 units. Product W requires 5 kg of material Y, seven hours of skilled labour and six hours of semi-skilled labour.

Availability of resources for next period is forecast as follows:

No inventories are held.

What is the principal budget factor for next period?

A marketing manager is trying to decide which of four potential selling prices to charge for a new product. The state of the economy is uncertain and may show signs of recession, growth or boom. The manager has prepared a regret matrix showing the regret for each of the possible outcomes depending on the decision made.

If the manager applies the minimax regret criterion to make decisions, which selling price would be chosen?

A company is forecasting its revenue for May and has established that sales will be either high, medium or low. The expected value of sales revenue for May has been calculated as $160,000. The following table includes data which relate to the potential sales in May.

Revenue Probability Expected Value

High $250,000 0.2 C

Medium A 0.5 D

Low $100,000 B $30,000

Place the figures given in to the spaces marked with the letters A, B, C and D, to complete the above table.

A company manufactures a single product. The company absorbs fixed production overhead using a pre-determined rate per unit.

The following data applies for month 7:

During month 7 fixed production overhead was over absorbed by $40,000.

What was the actual number of units produced during month 7?