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Free CIMA P2 Practice Exam with Questions & Answers | Set: 6

Questions 51

An organization's transfer pricing system involves:

• The transferring division receiving $20 per unit; an amount equal to its variable costs.

• The receiving division paying an additional $30,000 every month to the transferring division.

Which transfer pricing system is the organization using?

Options:
A.

Dual transfer prices

B.

Two part tariff

C.

Cost-plus

D.

Variable cost plus opportunity cost

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Questions 52

Company D is about to launch an innovative and unique product which may face direct competition within three years. The company needs to achieve a rapid payback on all investments because it has limited access to external finance.

Which is the most appropriate pricing strategy for company D's new product, and for what reason?

Options:
A.

Market skimming because it exploits areas of the market which are sensitive to price.

B.

Penetration pricing because it can be used to rapidly build sales volume in mature markets.

C.

Market skimming because it enables high prices to be charged to buyers who want the product as soon as possible.

D.

Penetration pricing because it can be used to rapidly build sales volume in high growth markets.

Questions 53

Which of the following would change if the cost of capital of a proposed project was increased?

Options:
A.

Internal rate of return

B.

Payback period

C.

Accounting rate of return

D.

Net present value

Questions 54

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

Options:
A.

economy

B.

efficiency

C.

effectiveness

D.

enterprise

Questions 55

Which of the following statements is true?

Options:
A.

Risk transfer means the management of a portfolio of different risks.

B.

Insuring risks means that businesses will not need to take any measures to reduce those risks.

C.

High frequency, high severity risks are always strategic risks.

D.

Risk hedging is taking action to offset one risk by incurring a new risk in the opposite direction.

Questions 56

An 80% learning curve is expected for a repetitive and complex task.

Which of the following statements is correct?

Options:
A.

The cumulative average time per unit will reduce by 80% every time the output is doubled.

B.

The cumulative average time per unit will reduce by 20% every time the output is doubled.

C.

Each unit produced will take 80% less time to produce than the previous unit.

D.

Each unit produced will take 20% less time to produce than the previous unit.

Questions 57

In order to support decision making, management accounting information categorizes costs in a variety of ways.

Responsibility accounting primarily distinguishes between costs on the basis that they are either:

Options:
A.

sunk or opportunity costs

B.

fixed or variable costs

C.

controllable or uncontrollable costs

D.

relevant or non-relevant costs

Questions 58

A company is considering the replacement of its outdated information system.

Which of the following are appropriate approaches for the company to take to assess the potential qualitative benefits of a replacement information system?

(1) Ignore the qualitative benefits that may arise because there is too much subjectivity involved in their assessment.

(2) Attempt to attribute monetary values to each of the qualitative benefits identified.

(3) Acknowledge the existence of qualitative benefits and attempt to assess them in a reasonable manner that is acceptable to all parties.

(4) Attempt to express qualitative benefits in general terms linked to a hierarchy of organizational objectives.

Options:
A.

(1), (2) and (3) only

B.

(1), (2) and (4) only

C.

(1), (3) and (4) only

D.

(2), (3) and (4) only

Questions 59

An organization wants to increase the use value that customers place on one of its products - a laptop computer.

Which of the following actions, taken to increase the value to the customer, would increase the product's use value?

Select ALL that apply.

Options:
A.

Launching a marketing campaign designed to build the company's brand.

B.

Installing a touch screen to improve the computer's functionality.

C.

Changing the color of the computer's case.

D.

Adopting a premium pricing strategy for the computer.

E.

Fitting advanced components to improve the computer's performance.

Questions 60

Which of the following investment appraisal methods provides an absolute monetary value on which to base decisions?

Options:
A.

Accounting rate of return

B.

Net present value

C.

Internal rate of return

D.

Profitability index