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Division Y of automobile spare parts; manufactures motors and budgets to transfer 72 motors to Division Z and to sell 48 motors to external customers. The standard cost information per motor for Division Y is as follows:
Variable cost per motor: Rs. 100 per motor; fixed production overhead and fixed selling & administrative overhead per motor: Rs. 150. In order to set the external selling price the company uses a 44 % mark up on total standard cost.
Required: Identify the sales if the transfer price is set at the total production cost.
- A) Rs. 17,280
- B) Rs. 35,280
- C) Rs. 18,000
- D) Rs. 720
Return on Investment (ROI) can be improved by:
- A) increase in expenses.
- B) increasing the investment.
- C) increasing the sales.
- D) decreasing sales.
Identify the profitability of index of” Project A” if Present value of inflows and Present value of outflows are Rs. 176,213 and 213,225 respectively.
- A) 1.00
- B) 0.83
- C) None of the given options
- D) 1.21
Identify the Coefficient of variation if “stock of company C” has 8 % standard deviation, 16% expected return and cost of capital of the project of “Company C” is 9%?
- A) 0.50
- B) 2.00
- C) 1.78
- D) 0.89
Which of the following “Capital budgeting technique” ignores the concept of time value of money?
- A) Net present value
- B) Payback period
- C) Profitability index
- D) Internal rate of return
Sale price per unit=Rs. 1800
Variable cost= Rs.1300
Fixed cost= Rs.310,000
Break-even point (units)= ?
- A) 238 units
- B) 620 units
- C) 580 units
- D) 600 units
Project should be accepted for investment if:
- A) weighted average cost of capital >cost of debt
- B) weighted average cost of capital < internal rate of return
- C) weighted average cost of capital = internal rate of return
- D) weighted average cost of capital > internal rate of return
Which of the following is not a method of “capital budgeting”?
- A) Profitability index
- B) Equivalent annual annuity
- C) Internal rate of return
- D) Incremental pension plan
Present value of outflows= Rs. 165,500
Present value of inflows= Rs. 269,300
Profitability index= ?
- A) 0.91
- B) 1.63
- C) 0.61
- D) 1.51
Residual Income is evaluation measure of which of the following?
- A) None of the given options
- B) Profit center
- C) Investment center
- D) Cost center
Which of the following is most appropriate for Economic Value Added (EVA)?
- A) It measures the Economic performance of division.
- B) It measures the operating expenses of division.
- C) It measures the Accounting profit of division.
- D) It measures the net income of division.
Following information has been extracted for the year to calculate the sales margin of RC Company.
Cost of Capital: Rs. 340,000 and Net income: Rs. 250,000 and Sales revenue: Rs.700,000
Find the sales margin with the help of provided information.
- A) 74 %
- B) 36 %
- C) 84 %
- D) 13 %
It is assumed that the initial investment for “Project A” is Rs. 170,000. Cash flows are Rs. 40,000, Rs. 90,000, and Rs. 50,000 in the first, second third year respectively.
Required: Identify the payback period of Project A.
- A) 3.00 year
- B) 2.80 year
- C) 2.00 year
- D) 2.40 year
Project with unconventional cash flows can have either ………………or ………………… IRR.
- A) Positive, double
- B) Single, double
- C) Double, positive
- D) Negative, multiple
Which of the following is not an advantage of IRR?
- A) Results are expressed as a simple percentage
- B) It takes into account the time value of money
- C) It is easily understood as compare to other methods
- D) Unconventional cash flows can have negative IRR
Following information has been extracted for the year to find the Return on Investment of ABC Company.
Return: Rs. 590,000; investment: Rs. 4,690,000 and Sales: Rs. 4,900,000
Find the Return on Investment with the help of provided information.
- A) 36%
- B) Required more information
- C) 13%
- D) 1.04%
A rational investor accepts the project if the net present value of the project is __________ and rejects if net present value of the project is ________.
- A) Positive; negative
- B) Negative; negative
- C) At breakeven point; positive
- D) Positive; at breakeven point
Which of the following is (are) benefit(s) of Critical Path Method (CPM)?
- A) Useful in monitoring costs
- B) Mathematically simple
- C) All of the given options
- D) Give critical path and slack time
Which of the following statement is correct for “Project Evaluation & Review Technique”?
- A) It shows the inter relationship of various jobs which makeup the overall project and clearly identify the critical path of the project.
- B) It focuses on successful completion of program in the shortest possible time.
- C) It was developed by US navy for planning and controlling of Polaris missile program.
- D) All of the given options
Cost based transfer pricing is appropriate:
- A) Whenever profit responsibility is centralized and each division is operated on a cost center basis.
- B) Whenever profit responsibility is decentralized and each division is operated on a cost center basis.
- C) Whenever profit responsibility is centralized and each division is operated on a profit center basis.
- D) Whenever profit responsibility is decentralized and each division is operated on a standard cost basis.