CIMA P1 - Management Accounting Question Tutorial 認定 CIMAPRO15-P01-X1-ENG 試験問題:

1. A flexible budget is a budget that is:

A) changed in response to changes in costs
B) continuously updated by adding a further accounting period when the earliest accounting period has expired
C) set prior to the control period and not subsequently changed in response to changes in activity period has expired
D) changed in response to changes in the level of activity

2. XY, a not-for-profit charity organization which is funded by public donations, is concerned that it is not making the best use of its available funds. It has carried out a review of its budgeting system and is considering
replacing the current system with a zero-based budgeting system.
Select ALL the potential advantages AND disadvantages for the charity of a zero-based budgeting system.

A) The creation of decision packages and their subsequent ranking by top management is very time consuming and costly. The charity will need to assess whether the benefits of the system outweigh the costs involved.
B) In applying traditional budgeting, 'activities' may result in functional departments rather than cross functional activities and thus distract attention from the real cost-reduction issues.
C) It discourages a questioning approach by focusing attention not only on the cost of the activity but on the benefits it provides. The charity managers will not articulate the benefits encouraging them to think clearly about the activities.
D) Preparation of the decision packages will normally require the environment of many employees. This environment may produce useful ideas and promote job satisfaction.
E) It avoids the complacency inherent in the traditional incremental approach where it is assumed that future activities will be very similar to current ones.
F) In an organization like a charity, the decision packages are not very disparate and difficult t compare.

3. Explain how probability analysis could be used to assess the risk of the evaluated projects.
Select all the true statements.

A) The NPVs of a sample range of possible outcomes and the probability of each NPV can be calculated. If a small sample is taken the distribution of outcomes can be used to calculate the zero activities deviation of the NPVs and the probability of success of the projects.
B) The net present value (NPV) of the project, if all high, low or medium estimates occurred, can be calculated along with the combined probabilities of their occurrence.
C) The company can determine a range of possible outcomes for each of the cash flows in the project, for example, a high, low and medium estimate of each cash flow could be determined.
D) The probabilities can be combined to calculate the expected value of each cash flow element and of the project as a whole

4. XY can choose from four mutually exclusive projects. The projects will each last for one year and their net cash inflows will be determined by market conditions. The forecast net cash inflows for each of the possible outcomes are shown below.

If the company applies the maximin criterion the project chosen would be:

A) Project D
B) Project C
C) Project A
D) Project B

5.
Calculate the sensitivity of the investment decision to a change in the annual fixed costs.
By how much should the present value of the fixed cost increase, before this project is not viable?

A) $8675
B) $7698
C) $9050
D) $6390

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