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An organization produces only two products. Each month it produces 1,000 units of product A and 10,000 units of product B.

Using traditional absorption costing the products have very similar unit costs. However when costs are calculated using activity-based costing (ABC), product A's unit cost is significantly higher than that of product B.

Which of the following factors has the potential to cause this difference?

Select ALL that apply.

A company is considering the replacement of its outdated information system.

Which of the following are appropriate approaches for the company to take to assess the potential qualitative benefits of a replacement information system?

(1) Ignore the qualitative benefits that may arise because there is too much subjectivity involved in their assessment.

(2) Attempt to attribute monetary values to each of the qualitative benefits identified.

(3) Acknowledge the existence of qualitative benefits and attempt to assess them in a reasonable manner that is acceptable to all parties.

(4) Attempt to express qualitative benefits in general terms linked to a hierarchy of organizational objectives.

The following summarised financial statements have been prepared by JNM's North subsidiary for the year just ended:

Calculate the North subsidiary's Residual Income, assuming that JNM's cost of capital is 10%.

Give your answer to the nearest $ million.

Residual income is an appropriate performance measure for which type of responsibility centre?

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.

In which project should the company invest $2 million?

Company X is considering the launch of a new product. In order to compete in the market the selling price must be $100 per unit. Company X aims to achieve a sales margin of 25 per cent.

Direct materials cost is $75 for each unit. It takes 15 minutes for workers to assemble each unit. Workers are paid $16 per hour. 5 per cent of paid time is idle. Overheads are absorbed at $6.50 per unit.

What is the value of any cost gap between the forecast total cost and the target cost?

A company uses activity based costing. The total production overheads of $16,050 for the next period are for set up costs of $6,450 and quality inspection costs of $9,600. The company produces two products, Product F and Product G. Details relating to the next period are as follows:

A new customer has offered to purchase Product F for $28.00 per unit. The only costs incurred would be those shown above.

What is the profit per unit of Product F that would be gained by accepting the offer? Give your answer to two decimal places.

Under the absorption costing system, which simply allocates our entire amount of production overheads based on machine hours, we have found that out of our 4 products, 2 are profitable, 1 breaks even and 1 is

making a loss.

Model D the most recent addition to the range is making a large loss after the price of a major component rose dramatically. Model A is only just breaking now too as costs have risen. The only two products making profit

are Models B and C. These two require the least about of machine hours so this makes sense.

However, the management have a few reservations. They cannot understand how B is so profitable. It requires several more stages of production than the other models and a whole day longer to be customised by an

expert.

Select the correct answer from the list below that can help to explain this situation.

In order to remain competitive an organization wishes to achieve cost savings for one of its existing products.

Which of the following correctly describes methods which the organization can use to achieve these cost savings?

Select ALL that apply.

A positive net present value (NPV) has been calculated for a project to launch a new product. An additional calculation is required to identify the sensitivity of the NPV to changes in the forecast total sales volume.

The present value of which of the following would be used in the calculation?