IMA CMA Part 1: Financial Planning - Performance and Analytics CMA-Financial-Planning-Performance-and-Analytics Prüfungsfragen mit Lösungen:

1. Sportsman inc. manufactures ceramic sports-related figurines. The company's oldest lines are mass produced in a standard variety of colors and designs. A few years ago in an effort to increase sales, the company began accepting special orders with modified designs in school colors. The minimum order for these special designs is 100 units. The special orders have become very popular and now represent one quarter of the units produced. Estimates for the year follow.

Design costs manufacturing overhead and materials handling costs are budgeted at $700.000 for the year Sportsman has always used a traditional cost allocation system using aired labor hours as the allocation base but is considering an activity based costing system. The most likely result of changing to an activity-based system is that

A) the costs allocated to each product should not change but management will be able to control various components of the cost more effectively.
B) the overhead costs allocated to the special designs will likely decrease Because demand for them has grown
C) the overhead costs allocated to the special designs will likely increase because the special design requires proportionally more overhead activity
D) total production costs are likely to decline as department are held responsible for their costs

2. Explain whether ZFI's current overhead allocation method is appropriate.
Essay
Zhiliang Foods Inc. (ZFI) is a privately-held food distributor ZFI has two production departments' the Meat Department is labor-intensive. while the Bakery Department is highly automated ZFI applies a single overhead allocation rate, using the number of pounds produced as an allocation base for the whole company The expected annual overhead costs of ZFI for 100 million pounds produced are as follows (¥ in millions).

ZFI has one payroll administrator in its Human Resources department, but most of the payroll related work is outsourced to a payroll service provider ZFI's payroll administrator is responsible for tracking the list of current employees and maintaining the most up-to-date employee information, including bank accounts for payroll direct deposits.
Each pay period, the payroll administrator emails the information for all current employees' hours worked to the payroll service provider. The service provider then processes the payroll, makes direct deposits to employees' bank accounts, mails payroll stubs to employees' homes and emails payroll reports to ZFI's payroll administrator. The payroll administrator then makes payroll journal entries to ZFI's accounting system based on the payroll reports received ZFI's accountant prepares a bank reconciliation each month to ensure ZFI s payroll payments on ZFI's bank statement match the amounts shown on the payroll reports from the service provider.
ZFl's management is evaluating the purchase of data encryption software and human resources management software next year. The human resource management software is expected to provide various human resources and payroll-related functions.
In addition, the human resource software can generate a report to indicate the monthly employee turnover rate and the average service length of employees who have resigned. The system can also generate a report to indicate the main reasons for resignations and identify current employees who are at risk of resigning. The system will recommend actions to help retain these employees, such as more training opportunities or a pay raise.
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3. A company has two service departments Security and Human Resources and two operating departments Assembly and Finishing Cost data for these departments are shown below

To determine the full costs of conducting Business m the operating departments the company allocates service department costs to the operating departments Security costs are allocated based on the number of employees and Human Resources costs are allocated based on the number of Human Resources hours used using the step-down method, what amount of Security costs would be allocated to the Assembly department?

A) $20,000.
B) $13,333.
C) $12,727.
D) $18,773.

4. Scully Tools Company is currently completing its master budget for the coming year Immediately before the master budget is approved, it is determined that December sales should be revised upward by S120.000 .
Scully purchases merchandise on a just-in-time basis, and remits cash immediately through electronic transfer All sales are on account. 20% of the sales are collected in the month of sale, and 80% in the month following the sale. Scully's gross profit percentage is 30%. What effect will this budget revision have on Scully's pro forma statement of cash flows?

A) Cash will increase by $24,000
B) Cash will decrease by $60,000
C) Cash will decrease by $84,000
D) Cash will increase by $36,000

5. Inherent risk factors involved in the revenue recognition process include each of the following except

A) computerization of the process by which sates receipts and credit memoranda are recorded
B) legal factors that affect product warranties, returns and liabilities
C) breakdown of segregation of duties controls
D) Industry factors that affect pricing, terms and discounts

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