Free CIMA P1 Practice Exam with Questions & Answers | Set: 5

Select the benefits to a company of using sensitivity analysis in investment appraisal.

(Select all the true statements.)

A company has to choose between three mutually exclusive projects. Market research has shown that customers could react to the projects in three different ways depending on their preferences. There is a 30% chance that customers will exhibit preferences 1, a 20% chance they will exhibit preferences 2 and a 50% chance they will exhibit preferences 3. The company uses expected value to make this type of decision.

The net present value of each of the possible outcomes is as follows:

A market research company believes it can provide perfect information about the preferences of customers in this market.

What is the maximum amount that should be paid for the information from the market research company?

A manager has to decide between four mutually exclusive projects, A, B, C and D:

Using the above information, which Project would a risk seeking manager choose?

N prepares budgets on an annual basis by using the budget from the previous year, and then adjusting it for growth and inflation.

This is an example of:

A decision tree is being evaluated back to a decision point.

There are two alternatives at this point:

1. To abandon the project and generate a return of $435,000;

2. To continue with the project and generate the following possible returns:

What value should be included at the decision point?

Place the correct label against each item to categorise the cost of the item within the quality cost framework.

A flexible budget is a budget that is:

A university is trying to decide whether or not to advertise a new post-graduate degree programme. The number of students starting the programme is dependent on economic conditions. If conditions are poor, it is expected that the programme will attract 40 students without advertising. There is a 60% chance that economic conditions will be poor. If economic conditions are good it is expected that the programme will attract only 20 students without advertising. There is a 40% chance that economic conditions will be good.

If the programme is advertised and economic conditions are poor, there is a 65% chance that the advertising will stimulate further demand and student numbers will increase to 50. If economic conditions are good, there is a 25% chance the advertising will stimulate further demand and numbers will increase to 25 students.

The profit expected, before deducting the cost of advertising, at different levels of student numbers are as follows:

The cost of advertising the programme will be $15,000.

Required:

Demonstrate, using a decision tree, whether the programme should be advertised.

LM operates a parcel delivery service. Last year its employees delivered 15,120 parcels and travelled 120,960 kilometers. Total costs were $194,400.

LM has estimated that 70% of its total costs are variable with activity and that 60% of these costs vary with the number of parcels and the remainder vary with the distance travelled.

LM is preparing its budget for the forthcoming year using an incremental budgeting approach and has produced the following estimates:

• All costs will be 3% higher than the previous year due to inflation

• Efficiency will remain unchanged

• A total of 18,360 parcels will be delivered and 128,800 kilometers will be travelled.

Calculate the following costs to be included in the forthcoming year’s budget: 

(i) the total variable costs related to the number of parcels delivered. 

(ii) the total variable costs related to the distance travelled.

A company has identified the trend in its sales figures through the regression equation Y = 65.9 + 3.86X, where Y is the sales revenue in thousands of dollars and X is the month number. The average seasonal variation for October is 87%

Calculate the forecast sales revenue for October of Year 6.

Give your answer to the nearest $000.