Republic of the Philippines
University of Eastern Philippines
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
University Town, Catarman Northern Samar
ACCOUNTANCY DEPARTMENT
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING REVIEW March 8, 2013
Final Examination Friday, 1:00-4:00 PM
INSTRUCTIONS: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only one answer for each item by shading the box corresponding the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED.
Abayon Company prepared the following figures for its sole product as a basis for its 2010 budget:
Expected Sales
80,000
Estimated unit sales price
P 1.50
Required material per unit
1 kilo
Material inventory at beginning
10,000 kilos
Material inventory end
12,000 kilos
Purchase price per kilo of materials
P 20
Finished Goods inventory:
Beginning
5,000 units
End
6,000 units
Direct labor hours per 1,000 units
50
Direct labor cost per hour
P 8
Variable factory overhead per hour
P 6
Fixed factory overhead
P25,000
The budgeted peso amounts of material purchases is:
72,900 b. 97,900 c. 81,700 d. 97,000
Items 2 and 3 are based on the following information:
The budget committee of Love Co. is preparing its manufacturing budget for the year 2009. Initial estimates indicate an annual sales forecast of 40,000 units, The company shall also need 10,000 units for stock. Economic lot purchases of 1,750 kilos of Material A at P8 per kilo and 1,000 liters of material B at P15 per liter are required to produce the 50,000 units.
Budgeted factory overhead expenses for this production are:
Fixed Factory Overhead:
Supervision P4,000
Depreciation P2,300
Insurance P 500
Variable factory overhead:
Indirect labor P0.50 per direct labor hour
Indirect supplies P0.008 per unit
General factory P.10 per direct labor hour
Labor hours and rates for the two operations are
Operation 1 4,000 hours at P5.00 per hour
Operation 2 2,000 hours at P4.50 per hour
Based on the information, the budgeted total manufacturing cost for love Company for the year 2009 would be:
P51,040 b. P60,800 c. P68,800 d. P76,560
The factory overhead rate based on direct labor hours would be:
P.67 per direct labor hour c. P2.16 per direct labor hour
P1.80 per direct labor hour d. P2.70 per direct labor hour
Based on normal capacity operations, Sta Ana Company employs 25 workers in its Refining Department, working 8 hours a day, 20 days per month at a wage rate of P6 per hour. At normal capacity, production in the department is 5,000 units per month. Indirect materials average P.25 per direct labor, indirect labor cost is 12.5% of direct labor cost, and other overhead are P.15 per direct labor hour.
The flexible budget at normal capacity activity level follows:
Direct materials, P4,000; Direct Labor, P24,000; Fixed Factory Overhead, P1,200; Indirect Materials, P1,000; Indirect labor, P3,000, other overhead, P660.
The cost per unit at 60% capacity is
P6.92 b. P6.50 c. P6.82 d. P6.00
Information of Western Company’s direct labor costs is as follows:
Standard direct labor rate P 3.75
Actual direct labor rate 3.50
Standard direct labor hours 10,000
Direct labor usage (efficiency) variance-UF 4,200
What were the actual hours worked, rounded to the nearest hour?
10,714 b. 11,120 c. 11,200 d. 11,914
Information on Eastern Company’s direct material cost is as follows:
Standard unit price P 3.60
Actual quantity purchased 1,600
Standard quantity allowed for production 1,450
Materials purchase price variance- favorable P 240
What was the actual purchase price per unit, rounded to the nearest centavo?
P3.06 b. P3.11 c. P3.45 d. P3.75
The following information regarding a change in credit policy was assembled by the Willis Company. The company has a required rate of return of 10% and a variable cost ratio of 60%.
Old Credit Policy New Credit Policy
Sales P 3,600,000 P 3,960,000
Average Collection period 30 days 36 days
The pretax cost of carrying the additional investment in receivable, using 360-day year would be
P5,760 b. P9,600 c. P8,160 d. P 960
Advances in technology happen in incredibly tremendous speed. This puts CPAs constantly face to face with change. One essential quality of a good design is accounting system that is highlighted by this development is
Simplicity
Economy
Flexibility
Traceability
The Mark X Corp. contemplates the temporary shutdown of its plant facilities in a provincial area which is economically depressed due to natural disasters. Below are certain manufacturing and selling expenses
Depreciation 5. Sales commissions
Property Tax 6. Delivery expenses
Interest Expense 7. Security of premises
Insurance of facilities
Which of the above expenses will continue during the shutdown period?
All expenses in the list
All except items 5 and 6
Items 1,2 and 3 only
Items 1, 2,3,4,6 and 7 only
Sta Cruz Company has asked you to develop a forecast of November 2009 cash receipts from credit sales. Credit sales for the month are estimated to be P640,000. The accounts receivable balances at October 31, 2009 is P600,000; one quarter of the balance represents September credit sales and the remainder from October sales. All accounts receivable from months prior to September 2009 have been collected or written off, Sta Cruz history of accounts receivable collection is as follows:
In the month of sales 30%
In the first month after month of sale 40%
In the second month after month of sale 25%
Written off as uncollectible at the end of the
second month after month of sale 5%
Sta Cruz total credit sales for October 2009 amounted to
P450,000 b. P570,000 c. P642,857.14 d. P792,857.14
Sta. Cruz, forecast of November 2009 cash receipts from credit sales total to:
P450,000 b. P574,142.85 c. P591,642.85 d. P642,857.14
A system with with several computers that are connected for communication and data transmission purposes, but where each computer can also process its own data, is known as
Hybrid System c. Distributed data processing network
Multitask network d. Decentralized network
The most critical aspect regarding separation of duties within information systems is between
Programmers and system analysts
Project leaders and programmers
Data control and file librarian
Programmers and computer operators
Preventive controls are an integral part of virtually all accounting processing systems, and much of the information generated by the accounting system is used for preventive control purposes. Which one of the following is not an essential element of a sound precentive control system?
Documentation of policies and procedures
Sound personnel practices
Separation of responsibilities for the recording, custodial, and authorization functions
Implementation of state-of-the art software and hardware
Clara Building Corporation uses the critical path method to monitor construction jobs. The company is currently 2 weeks behind schedule on Job 181, which is subject to a P10,500-per-week completion penalty. Path A-B-C-F-G-H-I has normal completion time of 20 weeks, and critical path. A-D-E-F-G-H-I has a normal completion time of 22 weeks. The following activities can be crashed:
Activities Cost to Crash 1 Week Cost to Crash 2 Weeks
BC P 8,000 P 15,000
DE 10,000 19,600
EF 8,800 19,500
Clara desires to reduce the normal completion time of Job 181 and, at the same time, report the highest possible income for the year. Clara should crash
BC 1 week and EF 1 week c. EF 2 weeks
BC 2 weeks d. DE 1 week and EF 1 week
ABC Corp. stock’s beta is .50. If the market return is 16%, and the risk free rate is 6%, what is the required rate of return on ABC stock?
11% b. 12% c. 13% d. 14%
You used predetermined overhead rates and the resulting variances when compared with the results using actual rates were substantial. Production data indicated that volumes were lower than plan by a large difference. This situation can be due to
Overhead being substantially composed of fixed cost
Overhead being substantially composed of variable cost
Overhead costs being recorded as planned
Products being simultaneously manufactured in single runs
The Fudge Company is planning to purchase a new machine which it will depreciate on a straight line basis over a ten year period with no salvage value and a full year’s depreciation taken in the year of acquisition. The new machine is expected to produce cash flows from operations, net of income taxes of P66,000 a year in each of the next ten years. The accounting (book value) rate of return on the initial investment is expected to be 125, How much will the new machine cost?
P300,000 b. P550,000 c. P660,000 d. P792,000
Following is a table of probabilities for two separate product lines, X and Y:
Probability X Profit Y Profit
20% P 5,000 P 500
70% 3,000 4,000
10% 6,000 8,000
The product line to obtain maximum utility for a risk-averse decision maker is
X because it has the highest expected profit
Y because it has the highest dispersion
Y because it has the highest expected profit
X because it has the lowest dispersion
The weighted average cost of capital approach to decision making is not directly affected by the
Value of the common stock
Current budget for expansion
Cost of debt outstanding
Proposed mix of debt, equity, and existing funds used to implement the project
For the doughnuts of MC Donut Co., the purchasing manager decided to buy 65,000 bags of flour with a quality rating two grades below that which the company normally purchased. This purchase covered about 90% of the flour requirement for the period. As to the material variances, what will be the likely effect?
Unfavorable price variance, favorable usage variance
Favorable price variance, unfavorable usage variance
No effect on price variance, unfavorable usage variance
Favorable price variance, favorable usage variance.
In zero-based budgeting, which of the following statements are True?
All activities in the company are organized into break up units called decision packages
All costs have to be justifies every budgeting period
The process is not time consuming since justification of costs can be done as a routine matter
All three statements
Statements 1 and 2 only
Statements 1 only
Statements 2 and 3 only
Which of these ratios are measures of a company’s profitability
Earnings per share (5) return on assets
Current ratio (6) Inventory turn over
Return on sales (7) receivables turnover
Debt-equity ratio (8) price-earnings ratio
All eight (8) ratios
1,3,5, and 8 only
1,3,5,6,7, and 8 only
1,3 and 5 only
Information about Rose Company is as follows:
2009 2010
Output (units) 80,000 84,000
Selling price per unit P 25 P 25
Input quantities:
Materials (pounds) 4,000 4,000
Labor (hours) 3,200 3,250
Input prices
Materials (pounds) P 5.00 P 5.50
Labor (per hour) P 7.00 P 7.50
What are the materials productivity and labor productivity ratio for 2009?
20 and 25 c. 25 and 24
100 and 95.45 d. 20 and 24
A Certified Public Accountants scope of management services is broad and covers all of the following except
Change management engagements c. audit engagements
Computerization engagements d. re-engineering engagements
On on-line access control that checks whether the user’s code number is authorized to initiate a specific type of transaction or inquiry is called
Compatibility test c. Password
Limit check d. Field check
Systems analysts are fundamentally responsible for the development of an organization’s information system. Which of the following is/are the least likely function to be performed by the system analyst?
Examining user information requirements
Developing, coding, and testing computer programs
Design of computer applications
Developing systems flowcharts
Questions 28 and 29 are based on the following information:
Product 101 Product 102
Variable cost per unit P27.00 P11.00
Labor hours per unit 3 hours 2 hours
Hourly labor rate P 4.00 P 2.50
Estimated production- units 25,000 10,000
Annual fixed overhead P 190,000
The fixed overhead costs are allocated on the basis of labor hours
If the sales manager of the company wants to set a price based on full cost plus mark-up of 20% selling price of each product shall be
Prod 101 Prod 102
P 39 P 16
P 45 P 20
P 54 P 24
P 84 P 36
Assuming that labor and materials are the only variable costs, how much should the mark up added to the variable costs in order to give selling prices equal to those in question no. 28
Prod 101 Prod 102
P 15 P 8
P 9 P 4
P 6 P 4
P 5 P 2
The following common-size statements are available for S Corp. for the two years ended December 31, 2010 and 2009
2010 2009
Sales 100% 100%
Cost of Sales 55% 70%
Gross Profit on Sales 45% 30%
Operating expenses (including tax)20% 18%
Net income 25% 12%
The trend percentages are as follows:
2010 130%
2009 100%
What should be the trend percentages for gross profit on sales for 2010?
58.5% c. 150%
130% d. 195%
How are the following activities classified using ABC System?
Security
Product Inspection
Insurance on the plant
Materials handling
Modifications made by engineering to the product design of several products
Machine related overhead
Set-ups
Providing space and utilities
Moving of inventory
Unit level Batch level Product level Facility level
4,6,8 2,4,7 1,3 9
2,6 4,5 1,7 3,9
6 2,4,7,9 5 1,3,8
2 1,6,7 9 3,4,5,8
A type of managerial accounting which refers to the determination of the operating cost regardless of cost behavior is
Differential accounting c. Responsibility accounting
Full cost accounting d. profitability accounting
Diet Company is a manufacturer of its only one product line. It had sales of P500,000 for 2006 with a contribution margin ratio of 20%. Its margin of safety ratio was 25%. How much is the company’s fixed cost?
P75,000 c. P100,000
P80,000 d. P125,000
Family Company has two divisions, MA and PA. Information for each division is as follows:
MA PA
Net Earnings for Division P20,000 P 65,000
Asset base for division P50,000 P 300,000
Target rate of return 15% 18%
Operating income margin 10% 20%
Weighted aver. Cost of capital 12% 12%
What is the Economic Value Added for MA and PA, respectively?
P20,000, P36,000 c. P12,500, P11,000
P14,000, P29,000 d. P20,000, P29,000
The ratio of sales to working capital is a measure of
Collectability c. Liquidity
Profitability d. Operational Leverage
An appropriate transfer price between two divisions of the Star Corporation can be determined from the following data:
Fabrication Division
Market price of subassembly P50
Variable cost of subassembly P20
Excess capacity (in units) 1,000
Assembling Division
Number of units needed 900
What is the natural bargaining range for the two divisions?
Between P20 and P50 c. Any amount less than P50
Between P50 and P70 d. P50 is the only acceptable price
The Taurus Company’s last dividend was P3.00, its growth rate is 6% and the stock now sells for P36. New stock can be sold to net the firm P32.40 per share. What is Taurus Company’s cost of retained earnings?
14.83% b. 15.26% c. 15.81% d. 9.69%
Reina Inc. has a target total labor cost of P3,600 for the first four batches of a product. Labor is paid P10 an hour. If Reina expects an 80% learning curve, how many hours should the first batch take?
360 hours b. 57.6 hours c. 140.63 hours d. 230.4 hours
Questions 39 through 43 are based on the Income Statement of Davao, Inc. which represents the operating results for the current fiscal year ending December 31. Davao had sales of 1,800 tons of product during the current year. The manufacturing capacity of Davao’s facilities is 3,000 tons of product. Consider each situation separately.
Sales P 900,000
Variable Cost
Manufacturing P315,000
Selling 180,000 495,000
Contribution Margin P 405,000
Fixed Cost
Manufacturing P 90,000
Selling 112,500
Administration 45,000 247,500
Net Income before taxes P 157,500
Taxes (40%) 63,000
Net income after taxes P 94,500
The breakeven volume in tons of product for the year is
420 b. 495 c. 1,100 d. 550
If the sales volume is estimated to be 2,100 tons in the next year, and if the prices and costs stay at the same levels and amounts next year, the after tax net income that Davao can expect for next year is
P135,000 b. P283,500 c. P110,250 d. P184,500
Davao has a potential foreign customer that has offered to buy 1,500 tons at P450 per ton. Assume that all of Davao’s costs would be at the same levels and rates as last year. What net income after taxes would Davao make if it took this order and rejected some business from regular customers so as not to exceed capacity?
P297,500 b. P211,500 c. P252,000 d.P 256,500
Without prejudice to your answers to previous question, and assume that Davao plans to market its product in a new territory. Davao estimates that an advertising and promotion program costing P61,500 annually would need to be undertaken for the next two or three years. In addition, a P25 per ton sales commission over and above the current commission to the sales force in the new territory would be required. How many tons would have to be sold in the new territory to maintain Davao’s current after-tax income of P94,500?
307.50 b. 273.33 c. 1,095 d. 1,545
Without prejudice to preceding questions, assume that Davao estimates that the per ton selling price will decline 10% next year. Variable costs will increase P40 per ton and the fixed costs will not change. What sales volume is pesos will be required to earn an after-tax net income of P94,500 next year?
P1,140,000 b. P1,500,000 c. P825,000 d. P1,350,000
From the records of Green Ann Co the following were taken:
Quantity
Sales
Cost of Sales
Product
Budget
Actual
Budget
Actual
Budget
Actual
Green
45,000
45,800
450,000
458,000
270,000
274,800
Ann
30,000
26,700
180,000
186,900
108,000
96,120
Co
5,000
9,300
25,000
55,800
15,000
27,900
80,000
81,800
655,000
700,700
393,000
398,820
Determine the sales price (SP), sales volume (SV), cost price (CP) and cost volume (CV) variances:
SP is P9,700 favorable; SV is P36,000 favorable; CP is P5,820 favorable and CV is P0.
SP is P5,820 favorable; SV is P0; CP is P36,700 favorable and CV is P9,000 favorable.
SP is P36,000 favorable; SV is P9,700 favorable; CP is P0 and CV is P5,820 unfavorable.
SP is P36,700 favorable; SV is P5,820 unfavorable; CP is P0 and CV is P9,000 favorable.
Linear programming is used most commonly to determine
The fastest timing
The best use of scarce resources
The most advantageous prices
The mix of variables that will result in the largest quantity
Glow Co. wants to sell a product at a gross margin of 20%. The cost of the product is P2.00. The gross profit of the product is
P.50 b. P2.10 c. P2.40 d. P2.50
Naval Corporation produces custom-designed safety gear for police vehicles. During September 2010, the company incurred the following costs of quality:
Product testing costs P 11,200
Product warranty claims 13,000
Scrap and rework costs 10,500
Product engineering design costs 18,900
Employee training cost 10,100
Product simulation costs 16,400
Total quality costs of conformance for September were
P80,100 b. P56,600 c. P42,400 d. P40,200
A firm must choose between leasing a new asset or purchasing it with funds from a term loan. Under the purchase option, the firm will pay five equal principal payments of P1,000 each and 6% interest on the unpaid balance. Principal and interest are due at the end of each year for five years. Alternatively, the firm can lease the asset for five years at an annual rental cost of P1,400 with payments due at the beginning of each year. The corporate tax rate is 35% and the appropriate after-tax cost of capital is 12%.
Which of the following is closest to the PV of the after tax interest payment?
P360 b. P453 c. P640 d. P726
Which of the following is closest to the PV of cost of leasing the asset?
P3,694 b. P3,779 c. P3,849 d. P3,992
Which of the following is closest to the PV of cost of purchasing the new asset with a term loan?
P3,777 b. P3,952 c. P 4,058 d. P4,153
The Southern Tuna Inc. processes tuna for various distributors. Two departments are involved, processing and packaging. Data relating to tons of tuna sent to the processing department during May 2010 are
Percent Completed
Tons of Tuna
Materials
Conversion
Work-in process inventory, May 1
1,500
80%
70%
Work-in process inventory, May 31
2,300
50
30
Started processing during May
6,500
Assuming the company uses the weighted-average method, what are the equivalent units for conversion?
6,390 b. 5,700 c. 8,000 d. 6,250
Which of the following is a useful measure for comparing risk of two alternative products, or for assessing the riskiness in any given product?
Contribution margin ratio
Operating leverage
Margin of safety ratio
Break-even point
A primary consideration is assigning a cost to a responsibility center is
Whether the cost is fixed or variable
Whether the cost is direct or indirect
Who can best explain the change in that cost
Where in the organizational structure the cost was incurred
If overhead is applied on the basis of units of output, the variable overhead efficiency variance will be
Zero
Favorable, if output exceeds budgeted level.
Unfavorable, if output is less than the budgeted level
A function of the direct labor efficiency
The Kenny Company makes 27,000 units of a certain component each year for use on its production line. The cost per unit for the component at this level of activity is as follows: Direct Materials, P4.20; Direct Labor, P12; Variable Factory overhead, P5.80; Fixed factory overhead, P6.50.Kenny has received an offer from an outside supplier who is willing to provide 27,000 units of this component each year at a price of P25 per component.
Assume that if the component is purchased from the outside supplier, P35,100 of annual fixed factory overhead could be avoided and the facilities now being used to make the component could be rented to another company for P64,800 per year. If Kenny chooses to buy the component from the outside supplier under these circumstances, then the change in annual net income due to accepting the offer is
P18,900 decrease c. P21,400 decrease
P18,900 increase d. P21,400 increase
Suppose the conditions are the same as in question 55 and the number of units of this component used each year can change. What would be the quantity of units of this component used per year that would make Kenny indifferent between making or buying the component?
21,600 units b. 27,000 units c. 28,500 units d. 33,300 units
A high concentration ratio is
An indicator of monopolistic power.
An indicator of a highly competitive industry.
Consistent with the law of demand.
Consistent with monopolistic competition.
If personal consumption expenditures increase from P720 to P780 billion when the disposable income increases from P900 billion to P980 billion, the marginal propensity to consume equals
0.75 b. 1.33 c. 0.80 d. 1.26
A Keynesian analysis of monetary and fiscal policy
Assumes the economy is stable and self-regulating.
Places primary emphasis on monetary policy.
Assumes that velocity is stable.
Focuses on aggregate expenditures.
What is the rate of inflation from one year to the next if the consumer price index was 110 in one year and 118 in the next year?
7.3% b. 7.0% c. 18.0% d. 8.0%
END OF FINAL EXAMINATION
…. goodluck….
Prepared by:
JADE BALLADO-TAN, CPA
Faculty, Accountancy Department
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