CIMA Related Exams
P1 Exam
A company uses a standard costing system.
The company’s sales budget for the latest period includes 1,500 units of a product with a selling price of $400 per unit.
The product has a budgeted contribution to sales ratio of 30%.
Actual sales for the period were 1,630 units at a selling price of $390 per unit.
The actual contribution to sales ratio was 28%.
The sales volume contribution variance for the product for the latest period is:
A company is launching a new product.
The company accountant has constructed a payoff table to show the estimated profit at different levels of production and demand.

How many units should the company produce if the minimax regret criterion is applied?
TP makes wedding cakes that are sold to specialist retail outlets which decorate the cakes according to the customers’ specific requirements. The standard cost per unit of its most popular cake is as follows:

The general market prices at the time of purchase for Ingredient A and Ingredient B were $23 per kg and $20 per kg respectively. TP operates a JIT purchasing system for ingredients and a JIT production system; therefore, there was no inventory during the period.
What was the material price planning variance for ingredient B?