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Business Accounting and Finance
Tony Davies, University of Wales, Lampeter, UK
Brian Pain, University of Luton, UK

Cost management

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1

There are three fundamental cost/volume/profit (CVP) relationships. Which of the following is not one of these?
A)total costs = variable costs + fixed costs
B)contribution = total costs - variable costs
C)profit = total revenue - total costs
D)contribution = total revenue - variable costs
2

CVP (contribution/volume/profit) analysis does not assume that
A)total costs are divided into fixed and variable costs
B)output is the only factor affecting costs
C)there is no uncertainty
D)the behaviour of costs and revenues is not linear
3

At the break-even point which of the following relationships does not hold true?
A)sales value = fixed costs/contribution to sales ratio%
B)profit = contribution + fixed costs
C)contribution = fixed costs
D)number of units = fixed costs/contribution per unit
4

Questions 4 and 5 refer to the following diagram:

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How many products are sold at the break-even point?

A)10,000
B)2,000
C)3,000
D)4,000
5

What is the profit for March?
A)30,000 pounds
B)50,000 pounds
C)40,000 pounds
D)20,000 pounds
6

A company's sales for September are 500,000 pounds and its variable cost of sales is 200,000 pounds. If its break-even sales are 300,000 pounds what is the profit for September?
A)300,000 pounds
B)120,000 pounds
C)180,000 pounds
D)200,000 pounds
7

Which of the following statements is not one of the bases of activity based costing (ABC)?
A)products cause costs
B)activities cause costs
C)products consume activities
D)activities can be managed
8

Throughput accounting (TA) is a relatively new development in management accounting. In TA, throughput is defined as
A)direct labour plus direct materials costs
B)sales revenue less direct labour costs
C)sales revenue less direct materials costs
D)sales revenue plus direct labour costs
9

'A structured approach to determining the cost at which a proposed product with specific functionality and quality must be produced in order to generate the desired level of profitability at the product’s anticipated selling price' best defines
A)Life cycle costing
B)Target costing
C)Benchmarking
D)Manufacturing resource planning (MRPII)
10

'The techniques used to measure the difference between actual costs incurred within each of the processes of manufacturing/supply of goods/services, and the equivalent costs if there were no failures within each of the processes' best describes
A)Kaizen
B)Life cycle costing
C)Cost of quality (COQ)
D)Total quality management (TQM)