CIMA Advanced Management Accounting - CIMAPRO19-P02-1 FREE EXAM DUMPS QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

A company operates a divisional structure. The manager of division D receives a bonus based on the division's annual return on capital employed (ROCE).
A minimum ROCE of 20% must be achieved to receive any bonus and thereafter the bonus increases in line with increases in ROCE.
This year division D achieved a ROCE of 24% and the divisional manager received a large bonus.
The manager is considering an investment in a new machine for next year. The incremental ROCE earned by the machine is expected to be 19% although the ROCE for the division as a whole with the machine is expected to be 22%. Without the machine, ROCE is likely to be stable at 24%.
The cost of capital for the company as a whole is 18% per year.
Which of the following statements is correct?

Firefighters risk serious and potentially fatal accidents whenever they attend an incident.
Which of the following statements is correct?

$30.328 million is to be invested in a project that will yield annual net cash inflows of $8 million for 5 years.
What is the project's internal rate of return (IRR)?
Give your answer to the nearest whole percentage.

An organization has a decentralized structure in which division A supplies division B with an intermediate product for which there is no external market. Division B carries out further processing and then sells the final product on the external market. Due to organizational policy the current transfer pricing basis is variable cost.
The manager of division A has stated, "The current transfer price is unfair because it does not enable us to recoup our costs".
The manager of division B has stated, "The current transfer pricing system enables us to quote competitive prices for the finished product".
The Chief Executive of the organization is considering imposing a transfer pricing policy that uses dual pricing.
Dual pricing would:

The following information is available for four investment projects:

A discount rate of 12% is appropriate for all four projects. The organization is subject to capital rationing and wishes to prioritise the projects using the profitability index (PI).
Which project has the highest PI?

A company is considering investing $680,000 in a machine to manufacture a new product. A consultant has been appointed to advise on the investment and the company is committed to paying $10,000 to the consultant in year 1, even if the project does not go ahead.
300,000 units of the new product will be produced and sold each year. Unit cost and revenue information based on this level of output is as follows.

60% of the overhead cost is variable. Of the remainder, 10% consists of allocated head office overheads.
The selling price will increase by 2% each year in line with inflation, beginning in year 2. Fixed price contracts mean that all unit costs will remain unaltered.
Taxation information:
* 100% first year allowance will be available for the purchase of the machinery.
* The taxation rate is 30% of taxable profits, payable in the year after that in which the liability arises.
For the purpose of deciding whether to proceed with the investment, what is the relevant cash flow in year 2?

Which of the following statements about learning curves is correct?

Which of the following statements is TRUE about the activity based costing system when compared to absorption costing method?

The starting point for developing a balanced scorecard for an organization should be:

Which of the following correctly defines the expected value of a project?