Question 71
GH manufactures a product using skilled labour and high quality materials. The company operates a standard costing system and a just-in-time (JIT) purchasing and production system. The standard selling price and variable costs for one unit of the product are as follows:
Prepare a statement that reconciles the budgeted contribution with the actual contribution for October.
Your statement should show the variances in as much detail as possible.
What was the actual contribution for October?
Question 72
QR uses an activity based budgeting (ABB) system to budget product costs. It manufactures two products, product Q and product R. The budget details for these two products for the forthcoming period are as follows:
The total budgeted cost of setting up the machines is $74,400.
Select TWO potential benefits of using an activity based budgeting system.
Question 73
A healthcare company specializes in hip, knee and shoulder replacement operations, known as surgical procedures. As well as providing these surgical procedures the company offers pre operation and post operation in-patient care, in a fully equipped hospital, for those patients who will be undergoing the surgical procedures.
Surgeons are paid a fixed fee for each surgical procedure they perform and an additional amount for any follow-up consultations. Post procedure follow-up consultations are only undertaken if there are any complications in relation to the surgical procedure. There is no additional fee charged to patients for any follow up consultations. All other staff are paid annual salaries.
The company's existing costing system uses a single overhead rate, based on revenue, to charge the costs of support activities to the procedures. Concern has been raised about the inaccuracy of procedure costs and the company's accountant has initiated a project to implement an activity-based costing (ABC) system. The project team has collected the following data on each of the procedures.
Calculate the profit per procedure for each of the three procedures using activity-based costing.
What was the profit for the knee procedure, using ABC costing?
Question 74
Product G has the following sales information:
If moving averages of annual sales over 3-year periods are calculated, what is the moving average at Year 3?
Question 75
The following extract from a decision tree has been prepared for a decision that is to be made to choose between options P, Q and R.
What is the maximum expected value of profit at decision point Z?