P1 Exam Dumps : Management Accounting

A company makes two products, product X with a contribution per unit of $10 and product Y with a contribution per unit of $4.

These products are sold in the mix 3:2 by volume and fixed costs are $38,000 per period.

The breakeven point for product Y, based on the expected sales mix is:

The manager of a recently opened cafe is deciding how many sandwiches to make each day.

The sandwiches are made in the morning before the cafe opens.

If demand exceeds the number of sandwiches made in the morning no extra sandwiches can be made during the day. Any unsold sandwiches are thrown away at the end of each day.

Daily demand is uncertain but is predicted to be 10, 20, 30 or 40 sandwiches.

The following regret matrix has been prepared:

If the minimax regret criterion is used to make the decision, the manager will choose to make:

A bakery manager is deciding how many batches of birthday cakes to decorate each day.

Demand for the birthday cakes varies from 12 to 15 batches per day. Each batch decorated and sold earns a contribution of $40 but each batch unsold leads to loss of contribution of $15.

The payoff table below shows the total $ contribution from each of the possibilities:

Based on expected values, the number of batches of birthday cakes the bakery manager should decorate each day is: