CIMA Advanced Management Accounting - P2 Exam Practice Test

Which of the following is a valid objective of a transfer pricing system?

A company's competitor has just launched a rival product at a selling price of $38 per unit. Until now the company's selling price of $41.60 per unit has achieved a 30% mark-up on the product's unit cost. The company proposes to use a target costing approach to pricing to remain competitive.
Management has decided to match the competitor's selling price and has set a target cost to achieve a
20% return on the target price.
What is the cost gap?

Which of the following is the ideal basis to use for a transfer price when there is a perfect external market?

Under the absorption costing system, which simply allocates our entire amount of production overheads based on machine hours, we have found that out of our 4 products, 2 are profitable, 1 breaks even and
1 is
making a loss.
Model D the most recent addition to the range is making a large loss after the price of a major component rose dramatically. Model A is only just breaking now too as costs have risen. The only two products making profit are Models B and C. These two require the least about of machine hours so this makes sense.
However, the management have a few reservations. They cannot understand how B is so profitable. It requires several more stages of production than the other models and a whole day longer to be customised by an expert.
Select the correct answer from the list below that can help to explain this situation.

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?

SkillWeave Industries are focused on managing the risk of selling their cars to the region due to economic turmoil, and have now begun using funds from sales in the region to fund supplier purchases from that region to reduce the risk from the volatile currency. However, SkillWeave want to go a step further and make the risk even less sizeable.
Which of the following is a method by which SkillWeave can operate in the market and transfer the risk of exchange rate exposure to another party?

A company is determining the selling price for its new product.
At a selling price of $16 per unit there will be zero demand but for every $1 reduction in the price, demand will increase by 100 units per period.
Production must be in batches of 100 units. The variable cost per unit will be $8 if 400 units are produced in a period. For each additional batch produced in a period the variable cost per unit will increase by $1 per unit for the additional batch only.
No inventories will be held.
Which of the following sales and production volumes will generate the highest contribution per period?

An electronics company sells a range of tablet computers. Tablet computers come complete with an operating system that is regarded as the market leader. The company aims to launch a new version of its hardware every eighteen months and a major update to its software every three years. The latest version of the tablet computer is always sold at a higher price, but the older version that has been replaced is then sold for a time at a discounted price.
Which pricing model does this company appear to be using?

Division A and Division B are divisions of the same group. Division A transfers all of its output to Division B.
Which THREE of these alternative transfer pricing bases will prevent any cost inefficiencies in Division A being passed on to Division B?

Which of the following criticisms relate to traditional budgeting methods and which relate to the
'beyond budgeting' approach?

An 80% learning curve will apply to the production of a new product. The first unit will require 120 labor hours. The labor rate is $11 per hour.
To the nearest $1, the expected total labor cost for the first 4 units is:

Which TWO of the following are reasons why cost-based approaches to transfer pricing are often used in practice?