CIMA P1 - Management Accounting Question Tutorial Sample Questions:

1. TP makes wedding cakes that are sold to specialist retail outlets which decorate the cakes according to the customers' specific requirements. The standard cost per unit of its most popular cake is as follows:

The general market prices at the time of purchase for Ingredient A and Ingredient B were $23 per kg and $20 per kg respectively. TP operates a JIT purchasing system for ingredients and a JIT production system; therefore, there was no inventory during the period.
Discuss the usefulness of the planning and operational variances calculated for TP's management.
Select ALL the TRUE statements.

A) The use of planning and operational variances will enable TP's management to draw a distinction between variances caused by factors extraneous to the business and planning errors (planning variances) and variances caused by factors that are within the control of management (operational variances).
B) If planning and operational variances are not distinguished, there is potential for dysfunctional behavior especially where the manager has been operating efficiently and performance is being judged by factors outside the manager's control. In the case of TP it became evident during the period that the prevailing market prices for materials were significantly less than those set during the budget process.
C) The purchasing manager's performance can't be compared with the adjusted standards that reflect the conditions the manager actually operated under during the reporting period.
D) Where a revision of standards is required due to environmental changes that were not foreseeable at the time the budget was prepared, the planning variances are controllable.
E) Standards that failed to anticipate known market trends when they were set will reflect faulty standard setting.

2. RT produces two products from different quantities of the same resources using a just-in-time (JIT) production system. The selling price and resource requirements of each of the products are shown below:

Market research shows that the maximum demand for products R and T during June 2010 is 500 units and
800 units respectively. This does not include an order that RT has agreed with a commercial customer for the supply of 250 units of R and 350 units of T at selling prices of $100 and $135 per unit respectively. Although the customer will accept part of the order, failure by RT to deliver the order in full by the end of June will cause RT to incur a $10,000 financial penalty. At a recent meeting of the purchasing and production managers to discuss the production plans of RT for June, the following resource restrictions for June were identified:
Direct labour hours 7,500 hours
Material A 8,500 kgs
Material B 3,000 litres
Machine hours 7,500 hours
Assuming that RT completes the order with the commercial customer, prepare calculations to show, from a financial perspective, the optimum production plan for June 2010 and the contribution that would result from adopting this plan.
The contribution per unit for R and T will be...?

A) R = $47 per unit. T = $61 per unit
B) R = $47 per unit. T = $65 per unit
C) R = $45 per unit. T = $66 per unit
D) R = $51 per unit. T = $61 per unit

3. A master budget comprises the...

A) budgeted income statement, budgeted balance sheet and budgeted cash flow statement only.
B) budgeted income statement and budgeted capital expenditure only
C) budgeted income statement and budgeted balance sheet only.
D) budgeted income statement and budgeted cash flow statement only.

4. TP makes wedding cakes that are sold to specialist retail outlets which decorate the cakes according to the customers' specific requirements. The standard cost per unit of its most popular cake is as follows:

The general market prices at the time of purchase for Ingredient A and Ingredient B were $23 per kg and $20 per kg respectively. TP operates a JIT purchasing system for ingredients and a JIT production system; therefore, there was no inventory during the period.
What was the material price planning variance for ingredient B?

A) The material price planning variance - Ingredient B was $64 000 F
B) The material price planning variance - Ingredient B was $59 000 F
C) The material price planning variance - Ingredient B was $54 000 F
D) The material price planning variance - Ingredient B was $57 000 F

5. A medium-sized manufacturing company, which operates in the electronics industry, has employed a firm of consultants to carry out a review of the company's planning and control systems. The company presently uses a traditional incremental budgeting system and the inventory management system is based on economic order quantities (EOQ) and reorder levels. The company's normal production patterns have changed significantly over the previous few years as a result of increasing demand for customized products. This has resulted in shorter production runs and difficulties with production and resource planning.
The consultants have recommended the implementation of activity based budgeting and a manufacturing resource planning system to improve planning and resource management.
How will a manufacturing resource planning system improve the planning of purchases and production for the company?
Select ALL the correct answers.

A) The correct inventory management system relies on the assumption that there is constant demand. An MRP system begins with the setting of a master production schedule specifying both the timing and quantity demanded of each of the finished goods items and then works backwards to determine the resource requirements at each stage of the production process.
B) A manufacturing resource planning approach to the management of all the company's manufacturing
resources including inventory, labour and machine capacity.
C) It seeks to ensure that resources are available just before they are needed by the next stage of production or dispatch. It also seeks to ensure that resources are delivered only when required so that raw material inventory is kept to a minimum.
D) The technique will not enable managers to track orders through the manufacturing process and will not assist the purchasing and production control departments to move the right amount of material or sub- assemblies at the right time to the right place.
E) The traditional approach to determine material requirements is to monitor inventories constantly; whenever they fall to a predetermined level, a preset order is placed to replenish them. This traditional approach (involving re-order levels and economic order quantity calculations originates in the pre-computer era.
F) It aims to generate an estimation of materials requirements after taking account of the number of employees quality and waste. The TQS model can be used within MRP provided that the major assumption in the TQS model of constant demand applies.

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