CIMAPRO19-P02-1 Exam Questions & Answers

A group consists of two divisions, Alpha and Beta, both of which are profit centers. Alpha sells a product to the external market and also sells it as an intermediate product to Beta.

Beta then processes further before selling the final product to the external market. The current group transfer pricing policy requires Alpha to charge Beta with the variable cost of production.

Which of the following statements is valid?

A manufacturing company has recently introduced a Total Quality Management (TQM) system. The company has invested heavily in the education and training of its staff, in addition to implementing new product design engineering. There is a plan to sample units from each batch of products manufactured to test for errors, although this has not yet been implemented due to budget constraints.

The company is experiencing high levels of customer complaints, with many faulty units being returned by the customer for refund or replacement. Sales revenue has fallen recently, mainly due to negative press coverage linked to dissatisfied customers.

Select the statement MOST likely to apply.

K Supermarket spends $80,000 per year on checking and processing receipts of inventory. Annual warehouse costs are a further $70,000 per year. These costs are currently treated as fixed overheads in the company's costing system.

As an experiment, the company is preparing a direct profitability analysis of a small range of products, including fresh grapes.

K Supermarket receives a total of 3,600 deliveries every year. 20% of these deliveries are of perishable goods such as grapes. It takes twice as long to process a delivery of perishable goods compared to a normal delivery because perishable goods have to be checked more carefully.

Half of the warehouse costs are for the chilled store that is used to store perishable goods. At any time, the chilled store has 800 kilos of perishable goods in stock.

K Supermarket receives 150 deliveries of grapes every year. Each delivery is for 100 kilos of grapes. The grapes spend an average of two days in the chilled store before they are sold.

Calculate the total cost per kilo of checking, processing and storing grapes that should be taken into account in determining the profitability of grapes.

Give your answer to the nearest whole cent.

Performance measures that monitor the extent to which a not-for-profit organization's objectives have been achieved are measures of:

An organization uses a balanced scorecard approach to performance measurement, both at the corporate level and to assess the performance of each of its responsibility centre managers.

Which THREE of the following statements are valid in respect of the effect of this approach on the behavior of the responsibility centre managers?